I'm in aircraft maintenance at a heavy maintenance/overhaul station for the 3rd-largest aircraft OEM.
With the plunge in demand for air travel, airlines have cut flights by as much as 75% at last count. As a result, they can no longer pay to have their aircraft maintained, so they parked them.
Everyone except a skeleton crew to do necessary maintenance on aircraft that are in storage, were furloughed last week, for at least a month, but word is that it could be longer.
In the mean time, I got a job delivering for Amazon Prime (Yep, one of those dark blue Mercedes Prime vans you see in your neighborhood). Keeps me off the couch.
Things are grim in the airline/commercial aviation business. We need, badly, for air travel to be able to resume. Unfortunately, it's not looking like that's going to happen for maybe months - at least, not like it was, before.
Best of luck to everyone during this time.
We will bounce back!!
With the plunge in demand for air travel, airlines have cut flights by as much as 75% at last count. As a result, they can no longer pay to have their aircraft maintained, so they parked them.
Everyone except a skeleton crew to do necessary maintenance on aircraft that are in storage, were furloughed last week, for at least a month, but word is that it could be longer.
In the mean time, I got a job delivering for Amazon Prime (Yep, one of those dark blue Mercedes Prime vans you see in your neighborhood). Keeps me off the couch.
Things are grim in the airline/commercial aviation business. We need, badly, for air travel to be able to resume. Unfortunately, it's not looking like that's going to happen for maybe months - at least, not like it was, before.
Best of luck to everyone during this time.
We will bounce back!!