United Airlines outsourcing leads to questions over aircraft safety

[Newsjock]

Source: San Mateo County Times

United Airlines plans to outsource engineering work from its SFO maintenance hub to other parts of the world, but United employees and U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough, question the impact the move will have on the quality of repair work and aircraft safety.

The company said it would lay off 50 employees, mostly engineers, later this year at its San Francisco International Airport maintenance base located next to the San Bruno Avenue exit off Highway 101.

The airline said the majority of the engineering work would move to a private consulting firm in Atlanta while some information technology jobs would be transferred to India. Workers at the base said they were told most of the work would take place in India, with some oversight in Atlanta.

... Lou Lucivero, president of the Engineers and Scientists of California union that represents 220 engineers at United SFO, said they have sent their list of concerns to the FAA and U.S. Department of Transportation. He said he had never heard of an airline outsourcing this type of work.

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[sakabatou]

1. As the old song says

"We can't make it here anymore."

[OhioChick]

2. Lovely. n/t

[ChromeFoundry]

3. I feel safer already

:sarcasm:

[Edweird]

4. Super! Lower wages, increased unemployment and decreased safety. That should make our resident

'globalists' cream their tightey whities.

[SharonAnn]

6. The "top dog" globalists have their own planes.

[AdHocSolver]

5. Airline aircraft maintenance has been outsourced to "third world" countries for some time already.

Airline companies, with FAA approval, are performing airliner maintenance in El Salvador, Hong Kong, and other low-wage locations outside of the jurisdiction of FAA safety inspectors. The FAA allows the airlines to get away with this, which shows how much influence they already hold over the FAA. Gives you a warm, fuzzy, secure feeling about flying, doesn't it?

I read about this practice in a magazine article about a year ago. Since the FAA has been allowing this practice for a while, I doubt that complaining about it because of safety concerns will make a difference.

[AzDar]

7. K & R

:kick:

[BlueCollar]

8. AA is the only one left doing it in-house

but that's going to change for them to compete...

[jeanpalmer]

9. This what shakes one's confidence in the D's

Why are they bothering to pass a "jobs creation" bill if they're going to let this happen? They just seem so phony.