southwest maintenance outsourced

DonDiego usually embraces deregulation.
And he does not comprehend to what effects of deregulation malibber refers. Perhaps DonDiego is just too thick.

DonDiego's earlier post comprised almost entirely some facts pertaining to the topic, rather than unfounded opinions. malibber chose to focus on poor old DonDiego's nativist comment. For the record DonDiego recognizes that El Salvadorean mechanics have to provide for their families too.

DonDiego's earlier post was also an effort to clarify that not only SWA outsources maintenance; the title of this thread seems to single-out SWA. SWA has an exemplary safety record, including only one fatality - a 6-year old killed in 2005 when Flight 1248 slid off a snowy runway at Chicago-Midway and crushed the automobile he was in. So far as DonDiego knows only QANTAS has a better safety record, . . . but QANTAS doesn't fly where DonDiego needs to go.

DonDiego says; "Have a nice day !"

DISCLAIMER:
DonDiego has no personal or financial interest in SWA.
And since he moved East he has had no opportunity even to fly SWA. When he resided in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona SWA was often his airline of choice, . . . especially to Las Vegas.

I may be mistaken, but I'm unaware of any deadly crash involving a Jet Blue flight. They are relatively new but they also have the most flights out of JFK on a daily basis and have been for at least five years,and have been a major playr in many markets for over a decade.

billryan is correct.

And there are actually several airlines which have never had a crash including Allegiant, Jet Blue, and Southwest; ref: airsafe.com

It's like red or black at roulette. Do you keep flying Jet Blue because they've never had a fatal crash or do you stop flying them because they are "due".

Southwest has had crashes, including a couple very well-known runway overshoots.

Do you know who works on the planes? I sure as hell don't, yet I fly because its alot quicker.

Also, I don't have much of a choice as much of all repairs are done out of country.

one reason for American airlines to fly routes to Latin America, including to do maintenance in Latin America, is also to ferry CIA operatives.

OKAY, youre laughing.

Well, back in the early 1980s Air Florida which was primarily a NYC to Miami/Ft Laud airline added frequent milk run flights throughout Central America... multiple stops in many countries... and it was a money losing operation. So why did they do it?

Well, the fist financing for Air Florida came from Evergreen International, which was the airline that got the Shah of Iran out of Iran and which the CIA actually went on record to deny was a "CIA airline." (the CIA rarely denies anything but went out of its way to say that back in the 1980s.) And the first plane that Air Florida got was the very same plane that Evergreen used to get the Shah out of Iran. See the links?

So when our government needs to have special flights it gets the airlines to have special routes and special runs.

Hello? Anyone listening?

Maintenance in Latin America? LOL

PROOF !

Southwest Airlines aircraft at the Aeroman Taca maintenance facility in El Salvador




. . . and right here the interested reader can see lots of airplanes in El Salvador .

DonDiego, for one, is relieved that the maintenance is accomplished in a modern hangar at an airport, . . . instead of by some backyard mecánico off the Avenida Cuscatlan in the Colonia Rosales District of Cojutepeque, right next to the Cemetario General.

I bet that's one of those secret CIA maintenance facilities we hear so much about.