DL, Aeromexico Plan New MRO Facility By 2014

[High Speed Steel]

Dobby,

"Contestants"? No, AMT/AMEs.

"Always looking"? For people interested in promoting our craft & profession, yes.

"He doesn't care if the FAA has any oversight or not"? Besides being a coward you continue to lie. I have never made any such claim. Besides being a coward and liar you are also ignorant. The AMTA does not create the MSC. That would be the AMTSociety.

Why isn't the twu sponsoring teams to compete next year? Will you field a team of AMTs willing to promote the twu? Can 5 AMTs even be found that do support the twu enough to represent them? If there are the door is always open to professionals willing to promote our craft and profession. Why, even your Bobby Gless and Don Videtich attended the MSC and spoke highly of the competition. If you did compete you could wear a paper bag on your head to hide your identity like you do here.

"Gloat about"? You mean the way twu alias using supporters gloat about how we should "just get over it" regarding the worst contract language in the industry?

You have had contestants in your show that are not required to meet the same FAA standards we are held to here in the United States this years show is proof of that. Admit it ken, it is all about you and your show.... B)

 

[eolesen]

Are you trying to say being drug tested and having FAA oversight actually makes someone more skilled?.

 

[High Speed Steel]

Are you trying to say being drug tested and having FAA oversight actually makes someone more skilled?.

Nope. Just saying that ken and his AMTA competition embrace lower standards for the AMT...

 

[topDawg]

AeroMexico has and will have need of aircraft maintenance just like every carrier now and in the future.. This just solidifies the fact that the global airline industry is growing along with MROs..

http://online.wsj.co...725-711301.html

.....yeah AM is who this is for....it isn't for the 600+ aircraft that use to have HMVs in Atlanta and MSP.

It just solidifies the fact that Delta couldn't find any vendors that could do the HMVs cheap enough so now they are just going to build their own in Mexico....but yes they will have a AM 737 in a bay every now and then. smh.

 

[Ken MacTiernan]

You have had contestants in your show that are not required to meet the same FAA standards we are held to here in the United States this years show is proof of that. Admit it ken, it is all about you and your show.... B)

"Who Can Enter

To enter the AMTSociety Maintenance Skills Competition as a member of a team, you must be a
licensed AMT or AME involved in, and/or supporting aircraft maintenance functions at any organization,
company or corporation. Also, any currently enrolled student in an FAA, EASA, CASA or equivalently
authorized schools may enter. Personnel of any country's Armed Forces involved in the aircraft
maintenance field are also eligible."

 

[Bandit6794]

Are you trying to say being drug tested and having FAA oversight actually makes someone more skilled?.

Are you serious ? Have you ever seen a aircraft that came from one of these chop shops?Have you ever repaired the mistakes, and sloppy repairs that were done or in most cases not done and signed off as completed?

 

[FWAAA]

Are you serious ? Have you ever seen a aircraft that came from one of these chop shops?Have you ever repaired the mistakes, and sloppy repairs that were done or in most cases not done and signed off as completed?

You've described poor quality work, but what does that have to do with drug testing and FAA oversight? Nonunion domestic MRO "chop shops," primarily in the South, are drug tested and have FAA oversight.

Regardless, United, Delta, US Airways, Southwest, jetBlue and all the rest manage to fly everyday despite the mistakes and sloppy repairs that were performed at the domestic and foreign chop shops.

Nobody's arguing that outsourced maintenance is consistently high quality - it may very well be consistently poor quality - but drug tests and FAA oversight don't seem to matter. Witness the allegedly poor job that Timco did on the AA 757s. A skilled, conscientious workforce is the key, and that has nothing to do with drug testing or the FAA.