Airline Mechanics - No habla Ingles

[Zef]

The today's technology combined with aircraft desing redundancy save the day a lot of time. As a Civil Aviation Safety Inspector, I see this happen everyday.

[exc911ence]

Originally Posted by jkarolyi

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If Juan can do for $12/hr. what Bubba the union slacker used to do for $60/hr. then more power to him. Society benefits from lower ticket prices which allow us to spend money on other things or travel for business more often.

Until the point when the Juans have taken all of the jobs and since none of the Bubbas have a job anymore, they can't enjoy the benefits of cheap travel (or food, etc).

I don't know what you do but I bet there's a line of guys behind you willing to do it for less money than you make. How would you feel if it came that close to home?

As an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer myself, I find the outsourcing of maintenance nauseating. I spent two years in college and four years apprenticing to learn my trade and have worked my way up from mopping the floor for minimum wage to earning a livable income using the years of experience I've gained. Why would it be OK for me to find myself out of work just because some Sri Lankan ex-pat is willing to do my job for half the money so Joe the Plumber can fly to Tahiti for $20 less? Ask anyone in manufacturing how they feel about moving jobs offshore.

Do you know why the US was such a strong force in WW2? It was the industrial machine on home turf that gave you the advantage. Now that your manufacturing is all in China, who's going to build your weapons of war when China eventually invades? Even if they did sell you weapons to fight themselves, they'd be second rate in quality anyway.

But I digress...

Airline travel is a luxury and should be priced accordingly. Pilots and mechanics are trained professionals as much as any doctor or lawyer and should be compensated for their skill and professionalism.

[mossguy]

Excellent post, Dave!

Best,
Tom

[porsche4life]

Well I'm on the ground in San Antonio. No crappy airline mechanics killed me on the way down.

[widebody911]

I ran this through BabelFish and still couldn't understand it...

Originally Posted by charleskieffner

SO! YOUR JUST FIGURING THIS OUT????????????????? WTF? being in/on/around/dad a pilot/working for garrett on flightline here in phx and l.a., IF YOU ONLY KNEW what goes on in the industry.

we are fortunate(read that as BLESSED) to have a TOP KNOTCH NO BULL A&P mechanic who could really curl yer skin here. he works 6 months in alaska on floats and 6 months here in the dezert, working on planes owned by guys with WAYYYYYYYYYYYY MORE MONEY THAN BRAINS! and he can attest to the stupidity/moronic/dont give a damn attitudes amongst flight line mechanics and pilots!

this doesnt surprise me JUAN IOTA!

if its EXPERI-MENTAL i aint going.

if its a new FNG , i aint going.

if it aint BOEING i aint going!

if its a hanger queen , i aint going!

if ya dont have commercial/military rating.......................I AINT FREEKING GOING!


remember................its an aero-puerto and A-HOLES FLY THERE! and crash and die there also.

dont get me going on this stupid sheet.................my computer everyday rings with FAA/NTSB crap from my garrett amigo in berlin,germany werking for rolls royce/bmw. and NONE OF IT IS GOOD!

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

Well I'm on the ground in San Antonio. No crappy airline mechanics killed me on the way down.

Were they out of Stingers?

[porsche4life]

Que?

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

Que?

I'm combining this news story with the other story today, where we had terrorists try to buy and use Stingers, in NY, along with plastic explosives for a Jewish Temple.

[porsche4life]

Oh. I've been out of touch all day