Tech Ops-Tulsa maintains some grounded Boeing jets
February 2, 2020
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Aviation authorities' grounding of nearly 400 Boeing 737 Max aircraft has had global ramifications.
But a large part of the story remains local.
At American Airlines' Tech Ops-Tulsa, the carrier's largest maintenance base, workers have for 10 months been babysitting more than $2 billion worth of the 737 Maxes. Two-thirds, or 16, of American's Max 8s are here. The other eight are at a storage facility in Roswell, New Mexico.
"A lot of the public perception is that these airplanes have kind of been pushed back into the corner and they are just sitting there waiting," sai...
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