Teamsters to Co-Sponsor Aircraft Maintenance Outsourcing Summit

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Business Travel Coalition, a travel buyer advocacy group, will launch a national discussion about how U.S. airlines are outsourcing more and more of their vital repair work to overseas third-party facilities, off-shoring U.S. jobs and putting the flying public at risk.

The groups will be co-sponsoring the Aircraft Maintenance Outsourcing Summit from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., February 11 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, in Washington, D.C.

All stakeholders in the outsourcing debate are invited: passengers, corporate travel buyers, airlines, maintenance technicians, FAA inspectors and administrators, aircraft maintenance firms and members of Congress and their staffs. Summit proceedings will be broadcast live over the Internet.

The Summit will examine the risks of outsourcing and explore potential solutions.

It will feature expert panels and keynote addresses from Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa, industry and government leaders.