Actually, CO sends their 777s to HKG (not offline, but they can't exactly terminate a flight there and expect to fly the schedule back), which is a lot longer than JFK-SAL In a message dated 10/23/2005 5:00:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, damiross3@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: Al, you said "It almost sounds like union rhetoric." You have to consider the source. The article was from the Washington Post, not exactly a conservative and unbiased newspaper. I have to agree that there is nothing wrong with outsourcing maintenance. In fact, it says something when it is actually cheaper to fly an aircraft to an airport for maintenance that is not only offline (in JetBlue's case) but is also in an entirely different country.