No maint walkarounds at IAH
 

IAH Maint management has gone to an on call procedure to respond only to pilot or ramper reported discrepancies and the mechanics are prohibited from doing meet and greet walkarounds. Also mechs have been told not to write up anything else if they are out doing one of the on calls.
Rampers are still doing walk arounds.

What could possibly go wrong??🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

I had the manager of SFOMM on a flight recently. He said that they are short nearly 130 mechanics and company will not let him hire. It's the old do more with less philosophy and that is not good.

I am but a lowly servant to the airline industry. But this make me think the logic is: "we don't want to hire mechanics, because mechanics are union employees. Meaning they're expensive, and hard to furlough."

Rather, they just want to wait until the music stops, the economy slows, and the business shrinks to a level that the current mechanic population can support.

Didn't they just sign a new deal too?

Why hire more pilots than we need, but be stingy with mechanic hiring?

They did. Note the key words industry and leading in the headline.

https://teamster.org/2023/01/teamste...ited-airlines/

Really?

https://careers.united.com/us/en/job...on-or-25K-relo

I saw that this morning. Don't shoot the messenger. I was just relaying what he told me about two weeks ago. I see the date of he job posting is 2/1. Apparently his message got through to those who make the hiring decisions. Thanks for your understanding.