New Southwest fuel conservation initiative

[ALSF 2]

I wish this were true. Southwest outsources much of its heavy maintenance domestically.

http://www.thestreet.com/story/10418992/1/airline-maintenance-outsourcing-stabilizes.html

http://blogs.consumerreports.org/safety/2008/05/airline-safety.html

Benjamin,

I stand corrected. After talking with some of SWA MX folks over the last few years, I had the impression that we still did a significant portion of the heavy MX in house. Oh well. Thanks for the current info.

Cheers!

 

[relief tube]

No. not correct. This aircraft did not and was not getting any "media" antenna.

NOT correct right back at you fella. 60% according to "the streets" article posted above. That's a majority, AND that's 2x some of the others.

American might have some embarassing nicknames, but they do just about all their mx themselves. Good for those guys.

 

[Sandhawk]

Kuddos to the crew! Thankful this didn't turn out like Hawaiian Air's years ago.

There is only 1 "D" in Kudos.......

And I think that you were referring to the pop-top ALOHA B737.......

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