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well, in 10 years that might get fucked. i don't think article claims something completely outrageous behavior, just outsourcing and possible relaxation of rules due to lobbying (but seemingly not yet)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

I suppose I'll add this to the list of reasons I prefer to drive, even if I'm driving a couple states over.

I wish I could train instead but this is amerikkka

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Private equity should be illegal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Surely private equity never caused terrible accidents in the airline industry before!

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/may/20/oxygen-tanks-likely-cause-of-fire-valujet-carried/

It's cool too because you can just open a shell company, kill people, and then go out of business before you have to pay restitution!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

So basically drive your ass down to Mexico first if you want to fly, since their shit will still work.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i think it's international phenomenon, so mexican planes also probably go to salvador

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's actually going on even in this country. The outsourcing trend started when the airlines contracted out their maintenance to anti-union states like OK (Tulsa is a big hub for this). Pretty soon, labor-intensive maintenance had left the US entirely for places like El Salvador and China. I'm pretty sure that Delta does most of their "D checks" (where the plane is pretty much disassembled) in El Salvador.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_maintenance_checks#Offshore_Maintenance_Facilities

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Nice. These assholes fly private so they wont face any issue due to QC. The rest of normal human beings would. But they are okay with that because they have delivered value to the investors.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’ve been debating going to a&P Mechanic School in September because I thought it could be a 30 year career.

God damn are all those gone?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

it says they are slowly migrating, not gone meow-floppy