Airline maintenance
2015-11-11 01:32:14.498028+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Fascinating article about airlines off-shoring airplane maintenance to cut labor costs: The Disturbing Truth About How Airplanes Are Maintained Today
... US Airways and Southwest fly planes to a maintenance facility in El Salvador. Delta sends planes to Mexico. United uses a shop in China. American still does much of its most intensive maintenance in-house in the U.S., but that is likely to change in the aftermath of the company’s merger with US Airways.
Includes a long list of near disasters and disasters...