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  Sunday Fun: UAL OAK Maintenance Base

  Posted by Sean.Broderick 3:10 PM on Dec 11, 2011

  Came across this wonderful little slideshow while taxiing around on YouTube today. It's 11 minutes of images taken at United's Oakland maintenance base, which closed in 2003 as par... Read More >>

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  United Services SVP Makes Nominated SVP For Merged Carrier

  Posted by Frank Jackman 2:53 PM on Sep 03, 2010

  Scrolling through the list of 14 executives, seven from United and seven from Continental, that have been nominated to serve as senior VPs at the merged carrier, I noticed the name... Read More >>

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  Major Buzz-Kill

  Posted by Frank Jackman 3:55 AM on Apr 22, 2010

  In case you start feeling a little too optimistic about the outlook for the airline industry now that the recession is assumed to be behind us, remember the words of United Preside... Read More >>

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  United and Ameco Sign Services Agreement for Boeing 747s and 777s

  Posted by Gail K. Warner 11:11 AM on Apr 01, 2010

  United Airlines and Aircraft Maintenance & Engineering Corp. (Ameco) just signed a five-year maintenance contract for heavy maintenance. Established in 1989, Ameco is a jo... Read More >>

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  Parked Planes Mean Lower Mx Costs At United

  Posted by Sean.Broderick 3:42 PM on Oct 30, 2009

  United's maintenance costs continue to fall as the carrier parks older aircraft, the carrier's latest 10Q (.pdf) shows. In the third quarter, year-over-year maintenance, materials ... Read More >>

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  Letters, Etc., Re. United, US Airways Enforcement Actions

  Posted by Sean.Broderick 6:02 PM on Oct 19, 2009

  Here, in one convenient place and better late than never, are a few of the primary public documents related to the United and US Airways enforcement action cases unveiled last week... Read More >>

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  United Airframe MRO Work Coming Up for Bid

  Posted by Frank Jackman 11:16 AM on Apr 23, 2009

  As United emerged from bankruptcy earlier in this decade it contracted out much of its airframe heavy maintenance work on five-year contracts. Those contracts will be com... Read More >>

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  Fewer Layoffs Than Expected at United

  Posted by Frank Jackman 3:06 PM on Jan 05, 2009

  The Associated Press reported Friday that United Airlines now says it will layoff fewer mechanics than expected after talks with the Teamsters. The airline apparently plans to keep... Read More >>

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  Layoffs at United's SFO Maintenance Base

  Posted by Frank Jackman 2:58 PM on Oct 09, 2008

  A United spokesperson confirmed this morning a Reuters report that the airline plans to lay off 414 mechanics at its San Francisco maintenance base. The layoffs are part of a previ... Read More >>

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  What Goes Around Comes Around

  Posted by Frank Jackman 9:35 PM on Sep 16, 2008

  A few months ago, United announced it was grounding its fleet of 94 Boeing 737 Classics. That was not good news for AAR, which had a contract to overhaul the aircraft at its Indian... Read More >>

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