Melburnian1
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Sometimes reports can be cleverly written to grab a headline and at other times the media can manipulate findings and over-emphasise one 'fact.'
A report from the University of NSW claims that Australia faces a shortage of licensed aircraft mechanical engineers.
As we will recall, QF closed its AVV (Victoria) heavy maintenance base (which used to do some or all of the B744s) but maintains a fairly hefty presence in BNE (Queensland.)
The report summary is available at 'The Age' and 'Sydney Morning Herald' websites.
Do AFFers believe that such claims are factual, or do the authors take too much of a 'Club of Rome' (pessimistic) view of the world?
It also apparently claims that most aircraft maintenance cannot be performed overseas. At least for the 'heavies', that is hardly true with QF outsourcing maintenance to Lufthansa Technik in MNL among elsewhere.
A report from the University of NSW claims that Australia faces a shortage of licensed aircraft mechanical engineers.
As we will recall, QF closed its AVV (Victoria) heavy maintenance base (which used to do some or all of the B744s) but maintains a fairly hefty presence in BNE (Queensland.)
The report summary is available at 'The Age' and 'Sydney Morning Herald' websites.
Do AFFers believe that such claims are factual, or do the authors take too much of a 'Club of Rome' (pessimistic) view of the world?
It also apparently claims that most aircraft maintenance cannot be performed overseas. At least for the 'heavies', that is hardly true with QF outsourcing maintenance to Lufthansa Technik in MNL among elsewhere.
