Re: UA Maint Hubs

[Mark Gerrard <markgerrard@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

N772UA is having new engines shipped in from SFO to IAD.  Once the 
engine change is complete it's being flown to SFO for a C Check.

Alireza Alivandivafa wrote:
>  The only ultra heavy base left is the SFO MRO.  They have bases at all the hubs, including a largish one at LAX and their training facility at DEN.  N772UA, which just had its engines damaged when firefighters screwed up a cannon salute and fire foam instead of water, is having its engines overhauled at United IAD hangars.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 1:06 AM
> Subject: Re: UA Maint Hubs
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> On Dec 14, 2006, at 7:25 PM, Blaine Thompson wrote:
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>> Where does UA have maintenance hubs now?  I believe they closed OAK  
>> and IND.
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> I think the only one left is the big SFO base; I have a couple of  
> friends that work there (one transferred there from OAK). There is  
> also some work done at LAX.   Much of the work from IND was  
> outsourced to TIMCO in Greensboro NC, Macon GA, and Lake City FL.
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