Qantas to close its Avalon base

[Brad Myer]

Originally Posted by Dave Dale

Australia is just too expensive. For anything. Whether it be getting maintenance on an aircraft, buying bananas, going on holidays. We are just too expensive.

Very true! But for some reason people seem to hold QF to a different set of rules than the other Australian based airlines.

Maybe instead of asking why QF are downsizing mx in Australia we should be asking why virgin/tiger do zero heavy mx in Australia

[Neil L]

I have even heard people say that they will not travel QF because of QF doing some maintenance overseas.

Then I ask them who they would travel with and they come up with numerous other international based carriers such as EK / SQ / CX etc.

Then I tell them that ALL those carriers have their maintenance done overseas.

Amazing puzzled looks occur and I just shrug at them !

As noted we do not mention our domestic carriers who have the bulk of their maintenance done overseas as well.

It is life now days so we have to live with it.

[Ash W]

Originally Posted by Neil L

As noted we do not mention our domestic carriers who have the bulk of their maintenance done overseas as well.

Where ironically the bulk of the domestic fleet, vis the 737, 767 and A330's ARE done in Australia. It is really just the A380's and soon what is left of the 747's that is done o/s, plus domestic overflow.

The difference of course is fleet size, there are enough 737 and A330's to justify a home base.