MCI transplant
Veteran
- Jun 4, 2003
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- Banned
- #1
<_< aa looses out on $$$$mils !!!! As told to me by a member of local management! It seems a number of 767,s have had problems with Phum ducting rupturing due to improper heat treatment! This problem was known by Boeing, and was being taken care of by Boeing under warrenty to the toon of a couple of $$$mil per aircraft! All ducting had to be removed, reheatreated, and reinstalled in aircraft! Well it seems one of the aircraft came into MCI, the paperwork was reviewed, and on the bottom it stated that that because aa didn't have the tooling, it was outsourcing this work to an outside vender! Well it seems we (TWA) had the same problem with our 747's! We tooled up and did all work in house! Our local management realised that equipmant was still in place here! From what I was told they made TUL aware of the fact that this could be a way to make some serious $$$! Two weeks later, aa came in and dismantaled that equipment! Nothing more was said!!!Go figure!!!!!!! :angry: