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Old 09-05-2019, 06:44 PM
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Old 09-05-2019, 07:47 PM
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Honestly this kind of stuff and the other things fleet service are doing is one more reason to outsource them all.

There is no way you will make these guys happy. And no way you're going to bring the groups together. They are for the most part hard core labor thugs.

Also MIA. Not surprised. And:

Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani

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Old 09-05-2019, 08:02 PM
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Honestly this kind of stuff and the other things fleet service are doing is one more reason to outsource them all.

There is no way you will make these guys happy. And no way you're going to bring the groups together. They are for the most part hard core labor thugs.

Also MIA. Not surprised. And:

Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani

Someone was gonna say it.
You clearly work for the suits upstairs. As I cant imagine any pilot who would endorse the outsourcing of jobs.
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You clearly work for the suits upstairs. As I cant imagine any pilot who would endorse the outsourcing of jobs.
Yep. Got me.
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Old 09-05-2019, 08:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Five Ohh View Post
You clearly work for the suits upstairs. As I cant imagine any pilot who would endorse the outsourcing of jobs.
Maybe he endorses quality employees, but we have witnessed through the last few decades that they seem to appear with outsourcing, and unions spend 90% of their time on the worst 10% of the group.
Outsource/insource doesn't matter to AA if you receive a quality labor product.
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Old 09-05-2019, 11:15 PM
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Key is quality. I flew with an old timer two years ago who told me that MD80 engines were blowing up on a regular basis. Cheap Chinese overhaul. AMR stopped it after losing like 10+ engines.

AMR seems to have a history of events caused by cost cutting. The DC-10 out of ORD comes to mind.
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Old 09-05-2019, 11:18 PM
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Yep. Got me.
You are a union employee, for better or for worse, the moment you are okay with any other union job being outsourced, you open yourself up for outsourcing. We are in no way special (well, maybe you are) in that regard.
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Old 09-05-2019, 11:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Name User View Post
Honestly this kind of stuff and the other things fleet service are doing is one more reason to outsource them all.

There is no way you will make these guys happy. And no way you're going to bring the groups together. They are for the most part hard core labor thugs.

Also MIA. Not surprised. And:

Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani

Someone was gonna say it.
I think you should realize there's a lot of people that say the same about pilots. The AA pilot group was successfully sued against for slowdowns.
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Old 09-05-2019, 11:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Arado 234 View Post
AMR seems to have a history of events caused by cost cutting. The DC-10 out of ORD comes to mind.
The same procedures were used by United and CAL at that time.
AA just got unlucky with the first failure. The NTSB found fatigue cracks from multiple airframes at AA and CAL.
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Originally Posted by symbian simian View Post
I think you should realize there's a lot of people that say the same about pilots. The AA pilot group was successfully sued against for slowdowns.
There's a huge difference between intentional sabotage, and a slowdown.
That mechanic crossed a line that should've never been crossed.
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