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<blockquote data-quote="cancan" data-source="post: 1237972" data-attributes="member: 50952"><p>It very well could be a ploy. I worked for an aircraft maintenance company for a while on my hiatus from FedEx. All the mechanics were contractors and would pencil whip the maintenance cards and bounce out of town after getting paid. A Fedex quality manager realized this and pulled two of their lines. I also have a vendor for FedEx I deliver to and they were shut blackballed by a Fedex maintenance inspector because their parts were not being serviced to FedEx standards although they met FAA standards. All this was about 5 years ago. It could be that Fedex has recently made the changes for provability over safety. But I will say it takes a few years of constant running to get planes as corroded as they say. All this to mean I just don't know. I was recently looking at a Fedex mechanics blog post and there have been some serious dangerous changes to our maintenance programs recently but that doesn't explain years of corrosion. Most airline passengers don't realize that FAA standards aren't really that high anyways. On "legacy" planes as long as you mark corrosion with a yellow dot you can fly that puppy a million hours until its next check when they just add more yellow dots.</p><p></p><p>Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using BrownCafe mobile app</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cancan, post: 1237972, member: 50952"] It very well could be a ploy. I worked for an aircraft maintenance company for a while on my hiatus from FedEx. All the mechanics were contractors and would pencil whip the maintenance cards and bounce out of town after getting paid. A Fedex quality manager realized this and pulled two of their lines. I also have a vendor for FedEx I deliver to and they were shut blackballed by a Fedex maintenance inspector because their parts were not being serviced to FedEx standards although they met FAA standards. All this was about 5 years ago. It could be that Fedex has recently made the changes for provability over safety. But I will say it takes a few years of constant running to get planes as corroded as they say. All this to mean I just don't know. I was recently looking at a Fedex mechanics blog post and there have been some serious dangerous changes to our maintenance programs recently but that doesn't explain years of corrosion. Most airline passengers don't realize that FAA standards aren't really that high anyways. On "legacy" planes as long as you mark corrosion with a yellow dot you can fly that puppy a million hours until its next check when they just add more yellow dots. Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using BrownCafe mobile app [/QUOTE]
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