Our Real Enemies now pressuring Washington for more foreign MRO.

MCI transplant said:
With a new Administration in office, (Romney) Maybe one way to bring American jobs back in house, would be to outlaw foreigners working on US Carrier Aircraft! ------- Pie in the sky thinking? ------ Maybe!------ Maybe not!!!
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How fast people forget, it was Elizabeth Dole who was head of the DOT that allowed the change in the FARs to allow american based planes to be overhauled outside the US, while Reagan was President.

Remember the massive overhaul facility that was built in TJ?
 
700UW said:
How fast people forget, it was Elizabeth Dole who was head of the DOT that allowed the change in the FARs to allow american based planes to be overhauled outside the US, while Reagan was President.

Remember the massive overhaul facility that was built in TJ?
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It's a new day my friend!---- We didn't have 8.5%+ unemployement then, or we weren't in a major recession! This country wasn't in decline, due to lack of leadership from both Democrates, and Republicans!---- All I know is that this industry is headed for one hell of a train wreck if nothing is done.
 
MCI transplant said:
With a new Administration in office, (Romney) Maybe one way to bring American jobs back in house, would be to outlaw foreigners working on US Carrier Aircraft! ------- Pie in the sky thinking? ------ Maybe!------ Maybe not!!!
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Maybe Romney will assign Bain Capital to look into it!
 
700UW said:
How fast people forget, it was Elizabeth Dole who was head of the DOT that allowed the change in the FARs to allow american based planes to be overhauled outside the US, while Reagan was President.
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That was pushed by Dole, but was adopted on 12/22/1988, after she had left the office of the DOT Secretary. It was James Burnley IV at the DOT, and T. Allan McArtor as FAA Adminstrator.

Look at FAR Part 145 Subpart C (145.71)

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-1998-title14-vol3/pdf/CFR-1998-title14-vol3-sec145-71.pdf

"On December 22, 1988, Amendment No. 145-21 became effective. This amendment revised
§ 145.71 (General requirements) to modify the requirement for a determination of need for the issuance of a certificate. It did this by eliminating the restriction that the U.S.-registered aircraft to be maintained or altered be "outside the United States." It also expanded the limitation of what could be maintained or altered from just u.S.-registered aircraft to include also engines, propellers, appliances, or component parts thereof for use on u.S.-registered aircraft. At the same time, in order to align with amended § 145.71, § 145.73 (Scope of work authorized) was also expanded to increase the scope of items that could be worked on by foreign repair stations. Eliminated was the restriction that work could be performed only on aircraft used in operations conducted in whole or in part outside the United States. Now, along with the change to
§ 145.71 that authorized work on products other than the complete aircraft, new § 145.73
permitted u.S.-registered aircraft and engines, propellers, appliances, and component parts for use on such aircraft to be flown or shipped from any location, whether or not in the United States, to the foreign repair station for the work, and then shipped to any location, including the United States. Through § 145.71, the showing of need requirement remained for this expanded scope of work."
 
700UW said:
In December of 1988 Reagan was still President.
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Your point?

I simply pointed out the Dole was not the DOT Secretary when the rule was adopted. Dole actually left on September 30, 1987. Reagan was President (a lame duck) as George H. W. Bush had already won the Presidential election.
 
mike7863 said:
you do know that romney and his bain capital friends got rich by shipping jobs over seas?
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That's the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Democrats have never become rich by shipping jobs overseas.
 
Glenn Quagmire said:
That was pushed by Dole, but was adopted on 12/22/1988, after she had left the office of the DOT Secretary. It was James Burnley IV at the DOT, and T. Allan McArtor as FAA Adminstrator.

Look at FAR Part 145 Subpart C (145.71)

http://www.gpo.gov/f...3-sec145-71.pdf

"On December 22, 1988, Amendment No. 145-21 became effective. This amendment revised
§ 145.71 (General requirements) to modify the requirement for a determination of need for the issuance of a certificate. It did this by eliminating the restriction that the U.S.-registered aircraft to be maintained or altered be "outside the United States." It also expanded the limitation of what could be maintained or altered from just u.S.-registered aircraft to include also engines, propellers, appliances, or component parts thereof for use on u.S.-registered aircraft. At the same time, in order to align with amended § 145.71, § 145.73 (Scope of work authorized) was also expanded to increase the scope of items that could be worked on by foreign repair stations. Eliminated was the restriction that work could be performed only on aircraft used in operations conducted in whole or in part outside the United States. Now, along with the change to
§ 145.71 that authorized work on products other than the complete aircraft, new § 145.73
permitted u.S.-registered aircraft and engines, propellers, appliances, and component parts for use on such aircraft to be flown or shipped from any location, whether or not in the United States, to the foreign repair station for the work, and then shipped to any location, including the United States. Through § 145.71, the showing of need requirement remained for this expanded scope of work."
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Strange isn't it? We are examined head to toe before we board an aircraft when travelling. In the U.S., aircraft maintenance workers must undergo a background check and random drug testing. But in the name of corporate profit, our government will allow our airplanes to be maintained by a workforce less scrutinized. If there is any industry that would be protected from outsourcing you would think it would be aircraft maintenance. It's not protectionism, it's common sense.
 
AA89 said:
Strange isn't it? We are examined head to toe before we board an aircraft when travelling. In the U.S., aircraft maintenance workers must undergo a background check and random drug testing. But in the name of corporate profit, our government will allow our airplanes to be maintained by a workforce less scrutinized. If there is any industry that would be protected from outsourcing you would think it would be aircraft maintenance. It's not protectionism, it's common sense.
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"Common sense" has nothing to do with it! The name of the game at AA is "greed"!!!! ------ It really is that simple!
 
AA89 said:
Strange isn't it? We are examined head to toe before we board an aircraft when travelling. In the U.S., aircraft maintenance workers must undergo a background check and random drug testing. But in the name of corporate profit, our government will allow our airplanes to be maintained by a workforce less scrutinized. If there is any industry that would be protected from outsourcing you would think it would be aircraft maintenance. It's not protectionism, it's common sense.
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MCI transplant said:
"Common sense" has nothing to do with it! The name of the game at AA is "greed"!!!! ------ It really is that simple!
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Where does B6, bankrolled early on by Democrat George Soros, perform its heavy overhauls?

MCI: this has nothing to do with AA or Greedy AA. For the better part of a decade, AA tried to hold out and not outsource heavy overhaul. But since every other airline outsources at least half of heavy airframe maintenance, eventually reality set in at AA and AA was forced by the evil marketplace to join in.
 
You are both correct. It does have to do with AA greed, just like it has to do with greed in the matketplace.

I will add that as long as it is okayed by our government then it's just companies trying to compete.
 
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