Safety
Airline safety concerns might promote bizav
Last month I participated in a panel discussion about maintenance of the airline fleet.

Last month I participated in a panel discussion about maintenance of the airline fleet. For a long time the airlines have depended on certified repair stations to make repairs they couldn’t tackle because of a lack of facilities or required tooling.

Since 9/11 the amount of work that airlines have sent to FAR 145 repair stations has increased at what some believe to be an alarming rate. In fact, according
to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysis of Transportation Department
data cited in Aero-News.net, Delta Air Lines spent $271 million on outsourced work in 2004 and $467 million in 2006.

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