The outsourcing of America continues. Nine of America’s leading airlines are outsourcing upwards of 71% of their repairs work on aircraft and parts to other countries. The countries include Mexico, Canada, Central America and Asia.
Not only is this stripping jobs from the American worker, but it could also pose some serious safety issues.
Why? Because it turns out the Federal Aviation Administration is not capable of inspecting and regulating the process. According to reports some locations performing these critical repairs have not been inspected in nearly five years. Five years!! Not only do they not inspect the work being performed, but they have failed to even track where the work is being performed.
This is the same FAA that forced American Airlines to cancel thousands of flights in March and April of this year, because wires weren’t properly bundled. Fortunately American Airlines our largest carrier is reported to be handling most of its maintenance in-house.
This is an outrage and something that needs to investigated and kept track of. It appears to me it is Profit over Safety and that is unacceptable.
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This is not so surprising as you see what the whole deregulation of the financial system in the United States has caused so much damage world wide. Business leaders seem to think that a less regulated environment is stifling but rather this can create a more sustained growth. It is just a sad commentary on the Ivy League education these morons receive.
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Well, America is so broke and with the idiotic and communistic bailout, it will only get worse. Issues like this and even health care will remain on the back burner for years until America recovers (I don’t think it will). If you’re wondering if Obama or McCain will change anything – no they will not. Again, America has no money and is living on credit. We’re so broke in fact, all issues are irrelevant except the economy.
Until America restores it’s sovereignty and reforms the federal reserve (the real culprit in this whole mess) nothing will improve. Neither candidate has a good plan and will only make things worse for all of us. Regulation is so poorly managed and deregulation is equally bad. America’s economy and the dollar must completely collapse before we will get it right. Our next president, regardless of who wins, will probably help us collapse – which will be a good thing in the long run…lol :smile:
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I thought that some of their work was outsourced, but not 71%! Not only is that taking away our jobs, but it’s unsafe. Wow!
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You can’t just be all about making money. When I travel I use Qantas a lot not just because I like them but also because they had a good safety record but they have had a lot of issues with their aircraft of late and they just mentioned something this morning about another one of their planes having to make an emergency landing. A lot of people are blaming their problems on them outsourcing a lot of their maintenance to countries in Asia. This problem is not just in the US. It is the world over. You have to take your passengers safety into account or else you wont have any at all.
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I don’t see how this saves any money because when something goes wrong now, every passenger and employee of the airline (or their families) will be suing the airline because they knew the conditions were bad where it was being repaired. It just makes absolutely no sense at all.
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What will they outsource next – maybe they should try outsourcing the government!
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It’s despicable the jobs they’re taking away from us to save a buck or two. I agree that in the long run it will probably cost them more because of lawsuits when this maintenance issue begins failing, as I’m sure it will.
But then again, for all we know our own country’s standards are lower than the countries we’re shipping the work to.
I work as a transcriptionist part time and years ago there was a huge scare that all these jobs would be outsourced to India. Well, some of it did go, and that’s fine because you get what you pay for. But the majority of the work is still US based (for US transcription) so that the quality does not get undermined, they found out the hard way that the product they got back when outsourcing was not as good, and quite frankly, more expensive to correct.
Though now there is an up cropping of new jobs as proofreaders of the outsourced work, so we’re still involved.
But when people stop flying as much they’ll realize that Americans trust Americans to do the work.
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Why not offshore work when the bookburning popeholes now in the USA majority are alien to productivity, but only promote corruption?
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While I see your point on the risks of outsourcing, I must say that it doesn’t always mean that you’ll get poor quality or craftsmanship just because you outsourced it.
—I think if that happens, the one at fault is the company who outsourced because they should have some sort of quality control standards set.
There are pros and cons with regards to the outsourcing business, ultimately I think (and contrary to what most people think/do) the more people outsource, the more people should be involved with the task at hand.
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