Air Canada fixing planes in US rather than Canada now

[MACKER]

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/will+Canada+planes/6333350/story.html

What got me in all this is that the company that had a solesource contract to fix a major airlines planes went in debt, but that the Air Canada act required them to be fixed in Canada,

NOW they are contracting US companies to fix their planes.

That is just plane wrong. If we are subsidizing and running it as an essential service, it should be giving Canadians jobs NOT americans.

[PIK]

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/will+Canada+planes/6333350/story.html

What got me in all this is that the company that had a solesource contract to fix a major airlines planes went in debt, but that the Air Canada act required them to be fixed in Canada,

NOW they are contracting US companies to fix their planes.

That is just plane wrong. If we are subsidizing and running it as an essential service, it should be giving Canadians jobs NOT americans.

Air canada never should have been saved , we should have had canadian take over back then, they were a well run company.

[Jack Weber]

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/will+Canada+planes/6333350/story.html

What got me in all this is that the company that had a solesource contract to fix a major airlines planes went in debt, but that the Air Canada act required them to be fixed in Canada,

NOW they are contracting US companies to fix their planes.

That is just plane wrong. If we are subsidizing and running it as an essential service, it should be giving Canadians jobs NOT americans.

Where's the Dominatrix of Managemen...er,sorry....Minister of Labour,trying to force this company back to work to save our "fragile economic recovery"?

What about the "health and safety" of those communities affected?

[Moonbox]

That is just plane wrong. If we are subsidizing and running it as an essential service, it should be giving Canadians jobs NOT americans.

Air Canada, as far as I know, didn't have a contractor to do their work in Canada anymore. They'll need to find one eventually but for the time being they need their planes fixed, in the USA if necessary.

[Tilter]

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/will+Canada+planes/6333350/story.html

What got me in all this is that the company that had a solesource contract to fix a major airlines planes went in debt, but that the Air Canada act required them to be fixed in Canada,

NOW they are contracting US companies to fix their planes.

That is just plane wrong. If we are subsidizing and running it as an essential service, it should be giving Canadians jobs NOT americans.

I guess, given that the company contracted to do the work is now closed and no other company available e to maintain them, Air Canada should just continue flying the A/C un-maintained, ignoring safety & commonly accepted maintainence routines.

Care to go flying?

To PLANE wrong would be to make an error in carpentry or to visit the wrong part of southern Saskatchewan ( :lol: ) I can plainly see you are as educated as is the hypotheses of flying the Air Canada planes (heh heh) plainly, unmaintained.

[MACKER]

I guess, given that the company contracted to do the work is now closed and no other company available e to maintain them, Air Canada should just continue flying the A/C un-maintained, ignoring safety & commonly accepted maintainence routines.

Care to go flying?

To PLANE wrong would be to make an error in carpentry or to visit the wrong part of southern Saskatchewan ( :lol: ) I can plainly see you are as educated as is the hypotheses of flying the Air Canada planes (heh heh) plainly, unmaintained.

If Canada is running Air Canada on public charity then why not the company that fixes the planes too.. or can't they run a working plane repair company? How the hell can they be expected to run the government.

They have to service military planes don't they, why not service them too? Afterall it is an essential service, isn't it?

Going to let the Americans service our "essential national services"

what the heck is this, it is offensive.

The government should buy it and run it as a crown corp. Its all handouts to keep air canada running anyway.

Edited March 24, 2012 by MACKER

[bush_cheney2004]

....Going to let the Americans service our "essential national services"

The Americans already provide "essential services" to Canadian military aircraft:

In June 2006, Canada’s Department of National Defense began an arrangement with Boeing for the second and final phase the CF-18 Modernization Project.

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/boeing-wins-39m-for-phase-2-upgrade-of-80-cf18-fighters-01769/

[MACKER]

The Americans already provide "essential services" to Canadian military aircraft:

In June 2006, Canada’s Department of National Defense began an arrangement with Boeing for the second and final phase the CF-18 Modernization Project.

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/boeing-wins-39m-for-phase-2-upgrade-of-80-cf18-fighters-01769/

Yes the difference being that the CF are not legally required to do its maintainence in Canada, Air Canada is.

Article 6d

6. (1) The articles of continuance of the Corporation shall contain

[...]

(d) provisions requiring the Corporation to maintain operational and overhaul centres in the City of Winnipeg, the Montreal Urban Community and the City of Mississauga;

This is like the US trading with Cuba 40 years ago.

Both Charest (a federal cabinet minister when the act went through -now premier of quebec and the three major city mayors all agree that Air Canada is breaking the law)

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11783920-canada-three-city-mayors-want-government-to-intervene-in-air-canada-aveos-dispute

The result of this happening is that Air Canada must be nationalized

Edited March 25, 2012 by MACKER

[Wilber]

It's not uncommon for airlines to send aircraft out of the country for major heavy maintenance events like milestone checks or major modifications because there are companies which specialize in just that. Routine heavy maintenance would be a different matter.

If Air Canada was required to maintain heavy maintenance facilities in Canada, why did the government allow ACE to spin off AVEOS and pocket the proceeds? When the unions protested the dismantling of AC assets to government and the courts, they were told it was a private company and they couldn't interfere. Interesting that after years of being bound by the court rulings coming out of CCAA, when the unions finally got in a position to exercise their rights, government has no problem interfering.

Because the major principals of ACE were foreign companies, most of that 4.5 billion gained from selling AC assets has long since left the country. But don't anyone let that interfere with their union bashing.

Edited March 25, 2012 by Wilber

[MACKER]

IS REQUIRED NOT WAS REQUIRED.

You had a little slip there saying it was required to have the facilities in Canada, at no point did the act change to remove that requirement.

Edited March 26, 2012 by MACKER