For anybody passing through MEM, great news....maintenance has been eliminated! Not even Swissport is available anymore.
We flew through there today and tried to call in a couple of minor items and we were told that we had to coordinate all write-ups with OCC.
I called dispatch and he confirmed that only the AMS flight would have maintenance available, all others would be contract only.
Two contract guys came out and deferred the items while coordinating with MC.
I spoke to the CP and he was confused just like me.
I can't believe they think operating a hub without mechanics will work! Things must be worse financially than I thought, unless this is the beginning of the end of MEM. Whatever it is, it was a real downer for all the agents.