JetBlue fleet overhauls done in El Salvador
Jan 22, 2005, 11:14 am
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JetBlue fleet overhauls done in El Salvador
JetBlue Airways sends some of its fleet to El Salvador for overhauls.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Business/s...=432403&page=1
I will not be flying JetBlue until this practice stops. There have been too many airline crashes because of maintenance problems. When airline Execs are counting maintenance beans to this level, I am not going to risk flying that airline.
Please note that I did not say that JetBlue is guilty of this, but only that I'm not willing to risk it. Doesn't give that warm, fuzzy feeling.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Business/s...=432403&page=1
I will not be flying JetBlue until this practice stops. There have been too many airline crashes because of maintenance problems. When airline Execs are counting maintenance beans to this level, I am not going to risk flying that airline.
Please note that I did not say that JetBlue is guilty of this, but only that I'm not willing to risk it. Doesn't give that warm, fuzzy feeling.
Jan 22, 2005, 1:53 pm
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Originally Posted by daved
JetBlue Airways sends some of its fleet to El Salvador for overhauls.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Business/s...=432403&page=1
I will not be flying JetBlue until this practice stops. There have been too many airline crashes because of maintenance problems. When airline Execs are counting maintenance beans to this level, I am not going to risk flying that airline.
Please note that I did not say that JetBlue is guilty of this, but only that I'm not willing to risk it. Doesn't give that warm, fuzzy feeling.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Business/s...=432403&page=1
I will not be flying JetBlue until this practice stops. There have been too many airline crashes because of maintenance problems. When airline Execs are counting maintenance beans to this level, I am not going to risk flying that airline.
Please note that I did not say that JetBlue is guilty of this, but only that I'm not willing to risk it. Doesn't give that warm, fuzzy feeling.
Jan 22, 2005, 2:41 pm
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Originally Posted by justageek
It would be interesting to see a study of the number of maintenance errors at foreign maintenance bases versus US maintenance bases. Without that information, we can't draw any safety-related conclusions from this practice. Of course, you might oppose this practice for non-safety-related reasons (jobs, economy, etc.), but then you get into the standard offshoring debate which I don't think either side has "won" yet.
Jan 22, 2005, 5:55 pm
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I am guessing that the work gets outsourced to either TACA or whoever TACA has an agreement with; so my question is would you be willing to fly TACA?
Jan 22, 2005, 6:25 pm
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Originally Posted by daved
I will not be flying JetBlue until this practice stops. There have been too many airline crashes because of maintenance problems. When airline Execs are counting maintenance beans to this level, I am not going to risk flying that airline.
Jan 23, 2005, 2:31 pm
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Umm.... Why are people so surprised about this?
There's a reason B6 can keep its fares so low.
Moving maintenance to the US will dramatically increase its cost, and therefore the cost of a JetBlue ticket. I think that'd hurt its business much more than a few "angry about outsourcing" people who refuse to fly.
When it comes to safety outsourcing isn't a bad deal. For example, Northwest has a lot of their maintenance done in Singapore where the regulations are even stricter than they are here.
There's a reason B6 can keep its fares so low.
Moving maintenance to the US will dramatically increase its cost, and therefore the cost of a JetBlue ticket. I think that'd hurt its business much more than a few "angry about outsourcing" people who refuse to fly.
When it comes to safety outsourcing isn't a bad deal. For example, Northwest has a lot of their maintenance done in Singapore where the regulations are even stricter than they are here.
Jan 24, 2005, 10:00 am
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Ill 2nd it that the firm that does it for Taca probably does it for B6 as its a Taca Hub down there.
Now can someone please remind me the last time that Taca had a crash or mishap due to faulty maintance. Ive flown Taca, Lacsa many times and never had a problem
Now can someone please remind me the last time that Taca had a crash or mishap due to faulty maintance. Ive flown Taca, Lacsa many times and never had a problem
Feb 17, 2005, 4:36 pm
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Long way to fly just for maintenance
I'm sure that the pilots love to vacation on the company dime and all while they are waiting for their jet to get fixed; but I wonder how much it costs to fly an empty jet that far for maintenance, it can't be cheap so the maintenance must be alot cheaper down there than they are here.
Feb 17, 2005, 9:06 pm
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I guess it depends on what other options there are in the US for this type of work. I don't know what kind of schedule they would keep for the planes going there, but I would suspect it would be taken out of service in Florida, flown empty to El Salvador, the crew picks up a completed aircraft and flies it back to Florida, where it re-enters the system.
Feb 24, 2005, 8:26 am
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Originally Posted by daved
There have been too many airline crashes because of maintenance problems.
Can you be more specific?
And where was the maintenance done?
Feb 26, 2005, 8:44 pm
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Not only are maintenance standards strict, the FAA oversees EVERYTHING that EVERY domestic airline does. The FAA must approve ANY vendors that do any type of maintenance on ANY US registered aircraft. In fact, the airline I work for has all of its heavy engine work done by Pratt and Whitney in Canada and we haven't had any engine failures ever. Comments such as those made by the op are irresponsible to say the least. By the way, where is Airbus located? Overseas in France...so perhaps the manufacturing standards are not as good as Boeing's? I highly doubt that! Sorry for the rant but had to get that off my chest. Cheers!