How Did Amr Wring 20% Out Of It's Mnt Expense Line

[nyc6035]

I noticed in the looking over the 10Q that the Maintenance Expense Line (which looks like it excludes Wages and Salaries) is down better than 20% Year over Year and nearly the same on the 3Q comparision to last years results.

How did they manage to do this...that's a huge percentage change. I didn't think the fleet size is down a comparable percentage.

 

[FWAAA]

I'm sure that the following helped achieve the 20% reduction: AMR recently parked 5 ex-TWA 757s just prior to heavy maintenance (their lease was up in 2004); AA stored 14 767-200s just prior to heavy maintenace and also stored 24 MD-80s just prior to heavy maintenance. There are probably other reasons, but these have to be biggies.

 

[Ken MacTiernan]

Parking a/c is a part of the bean counters "mad math" way of thinking. Don't forget that AA said we over inspected our a/c at RON stations with Maintenance. So now we have our famous No Check program. This is where an AMT will NOT inspect an a/c and only work open items. Well, if the AMT is not being paid to inspect an a/c that is money saved.
Let's also not forget the delays we take in the morning because of this No Check program. If an a/c is on the gate with a delay we are not burning fuel for the engines. Hey, that's more money saved!
Let's not forget the biggest item here though. Running the country's once best maitenance program into the ground and pissing on the pride of the best AMT's in the industry is PRICELESS!

Hey, let's get ECLAT to double check the company's numbers. Maybe we saved even more money than we first thought.