Question Even though the maintainance is outsourced doesn't the work completed be signed off by an FAA Approved and licensed mechanic.? Al ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alireza Alivandivafa" <DEmocrat2n@xxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 12:42 AM Subject: Re: outsourcing > (You're welcome David) > > There are two things people are really missing here. First, jetBlue is > not > even 6 years old yet. While they have been profitable since taking to the > skies, they are definately not in the cash position to be spending money > on > massive superbay hangars to perform D checks and the like. B6 did open 2 > hangars > this year (one smaller one at MCO to do light MX and for LiveTV, and one > larger > one at JFK) and is bringing their maintainance slowly in house (I believe > they > do up to B-checks right now) and they have their MX supervisors sign off > on > C-Checks. I am sure there will come a time where B6 does heavier > maintainance, > but they have not really had the time to invest in that kind of > infrastructure with their record growth. > My second point is one that people seem to keep missing. Aeroman IS a > leader > in A320 family maintainance and TACA is the largest carrier in Central > America. They are all fully Airbus trained and could easily pass an FAA > A&P course. > B6 was having their work done by Air Canada (likely cheaper than United > Services, Northwest or Lufthansa Technik) and determined that Aeroman > would be > cheaper and still maintain their planes to the highest level. Landing on > a > jacked gear on international television is bad enough press, and that > seems to be > an aircraft design flaw, they don't want to start having major issues with > their aircraft and I seriously doubt they will be taking the risk of just > that > because of bad maintainance. > > In a message dated 10/25/2005 12:22:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > damiross3@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: > (Thanks for quoting the original, Alireza) > I cannot see how an airline with the fleet size of JetBlue can justify > outsourcing to a foreign country the maintenance of its aircraft. It has > the economy of scales to do its own maintenance, at least up to the C > check. > > If the aircraft maintenance must be outsourced in a foreign country, it > should be done either through the aircraft maintenance or a major company > such as Lufthansa.