World wide Aircraft Maintenance Engineer shortage and it's implications

[mrlupin]

An amazing video highlighting the difficulties the manufacturers and Airlines are experiencing concerning AMEs and aerospace workers.

It's worth the watch. From my understanding, the creator is a pilot and creates much aviation related videos.

 

[mrlupin]

https://www.oliverwyman.com/our-expertise/insights/2023/jan/not-enough-aviation-mechanics.html

A related read on the maintenance worker shortage.

[boestar]

38 minutes ago, mrlupin said:

An amazing video highlighting the difficulties the manufacturers and Airlines are experiencing concerning AMEs and aerospace workers.

It's worth the watch. From my understanding, the creator is a pilot and creates much aviation related videos.

 

This guys does a lot of great videos.  It truly is scary whats going on in our industry

 

[Maverick]

It makes what is happening at WJ all the more serious at least from a Canadian perspective. We are about to vote on our first collective agreement. I've seen the tentative agreement and in my opinion if it's voted in favour it will only worsen the situation at WJ. With that being said I think it will be voted down in very large numbers. 

It's a very small pay increase (no where near inflation) with a bunch of moving money around that is being played by the company as gains. Smoke and mirrors, all tofu no beef. Any other cliches elude me at the moment but you catch my drift.

For me I am close to retirement but I would like to think that I am rejecting this contract for the young Engineers coming up behind me, For far too long Aircraft Maintenance Engineers have been marginalized and grouped with rampies, cleaners and various other unskilled trades mostly because of the IAM&AW. 

WestJet Engineers are now represented by AMFA, the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association which represents only those that are professionally licensed or will be at the conclusion of their apprenticeship. No unskilled labour.

I think mrlupin, Boestar, Conehead and Mitch (If he sees this) would agree that the time has come for us to be recognized as the professionals that we are.

 

 AMFA (amfanational.org)

 

[Kip Powick]

Bit of Rambling here and  just my opinion….but

So you have this airplane and you want to fly it….It is a two seater but like every two seater in the civilian world, ( including a vast array of airlines, when conditions necessitate that requirement ), it can be flown by one pilot. Not one other profession has to be included in that “solo” flight…..but upon landing, lets say the  aircraft is found to be “ broken”.

Catering personnel, flight attendants, cleaners/groomers, just to name a few, cannot fix it.

In my little world of slipping the surly bonds of earth, I have always prioritized, that, yes, you need a pilot, that is a given, however when all the metal, rivets, composite material, magical electronics and colored fluid systems go south, there is only one profession that get you back in the atmosphere……..the AME.

That profession is required more than any other, (pilot is the exception), to get safe, serviceable aircraft in the air and if the owner of the aircraft or in this dialogue ( WJ, management), does not come up with fair and realistic compensation for those men and women who work to ensure SAFETY for all in the air, then I hope it is a full-fledged STRIKE.    

[deicer]

Clearest explanation of what the problem is comes when one compares the increase in executive compensation vs AME compensation.  

Would there be a problem if compensation was more fair?

Which one can an airline really do without?

https://www.hrreporter.com/focus-areas/compensation-and-benefits/top-ceos-earn-246-times-more-than-average-worker/382518