mweiss said:
Fine. Then don't pretend that it's about safety. Be honest.
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And you neither!!!
TBOMK, most Asian airlines still do their work ‘in-house’. Korean Airlines do the majority of their work in Korea (with minor exceptions to the PW4000 work we do at SFO), Singapore Airlines do the majority of their work in Singapore, Thai Airlines does the same, JAL, etc… all do the majority of their work in their own countries with their own ‘employees’ and are not comfortable with outsourcing.
Having worked with our overseas counterparts, I do not doubt the quality of their work as they are working on their ‘own’ planes for their ‘own’ respective airlines ( and making a decent wage doing it!!! ).
As we are supposedly now a ‘global workforce’ this outsourcing issue will be confronting our overseas counterparts as well!!! Aircraft maintenance is transcending to the ‘cheapest labor’ mindset, and outsourcing issues are confronting them as well. I do not take issue with these carriers that employ their own workforce and control their own quality of maintenance, and if it were a major carrier doing work on our aircraft, I would feel more comfortable with this decision. However, this is not the case, ‘cheap labor’ is the rue of the day and quality (if any) is in hindsight.
MRO's without 'equal' oversight will contribute to the 'future' catastrophic events. Mark these words as it ‘will’ come to pass in the accounting of lives lost. I only hope you ‘bean counters’, ‘robber barons’, and analysts could be taken to the extreme legal accountability that is allowed by law (hanging comes to mind).
Considering that there are approx 21 FAA inspectors to cover South and Central America, and wherein we here at the 'Lazy U' have approx 10 FAA inspectors with a borescope up our neither reaches fining us for lapse in caliper calibration when our OSV counterparts do not even know what a freaking caliper is!!! One might surmise that the overseers have a task too large to handle.
Until there is 'equal oversight', I will continue to 'drive my own maintained "LAND" vehicle'!!!!
You can continue your 'hypothetical' statistical analysis and 'a$$umption' of the ethnical influences and inferences in this situation, but you might get a grip on some of this and see that ethnicity has little ( if any) involvement with it.
Equality 'in this life' is determined and regulated by those with the scratch!
B) UT