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Subcontracting of airline maintenance has been a major trend over the years. Many airlines consider aircraft maintenance a non-core task and as such, it has been on the list for outsourcing and cost cutting. But maintenance is an essential part of your safety system, it has a profound impact on your value proposition and its leverage on total cost of operations is grossly underestimated.

Despite the arguments above, airlines still subcontract, so what is the problem?

The devil is in the detail. Poor subcontracting leads to dysfunctional results, cost wise, safety wise, commercially. Inadequate subcontractor selection can lead to very realistic problems, increased management attention, unstable performance and so on. The major problem is that many companies copy industry wisdom without an integrated maintenance strategy. This leads to a patchwork of contracts and arrangements, with suboptimal transparency and lack of control.

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