Outsourcing Declines as Percentage of Maintenance Spending
By Andrew Compart andrew_compart@aviationweek.com
U.S. airline industry use of outsourcing for maintenance may have peaked, at least according to one measure released May 26 by the Transportation Department. But not for every carrier.
Spending by the airlines for outsourced maintenance amounted to 43.1% of their total maintenance spending in 2009, the department’s Bureau of Transportation ...