DAL MD88 Maint to Mexico

[EricPalmer]

Hope I put this in the right section ....


via MD80.net...


Delta Air Lines, currently under bankruptcy protection, is cutting 1,000 jobs in maintenance. As a part of this restructuring all heavy maintenance of its MD-88 fleet will be transferred to Aeromexico's two repair shops in Guadalajara and Mexico City. The first MD-88 is scheduled to go there in July.

Delta will a shut down some maintenance facilities in Atlanta and smaller maintenance bases in Chicago, Dallas and Philadelphia.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution 27 Apr

 

[aloft]

Be afraid...be very afraid....

 

[The L Train]

I used to work avionics on that line.

Before I got laid off.

 

[Baronman]

Be afraid...be very afraid....

Afraid of? This has been going on for a long time, many airlines outsource maintenance overseas.

 

[BobDDuck]

It sucks to lose jobs out of the country, but as far as safety goes... America West has been sending their 757s to El Salvador for heavy MX for a few years now. I'm sure there are others as well. Hell, we send some of our CRJs to Canada for repair work.

 

[Maximilian_Jenius]

Hell, we send some of our CRJs to Canada for repair work.

Hahaha...but then they were manufactured in Canada!

 

[derg]

Old news. Old OLD news.

Take a peek at where the maintenance jobs went and you'll have a glimpse of what the ATA wants to do with pilot jobs if we let the administration relax cabotage laws.