April 10, 2008 (LPAC)-- The ongoing total breakdown in world infrastructure, which was caused by the British concoction known as globalization and is made worse everyday by the sheer lunacy of world leaders clinging on to failed axioms, became more visible to the population at large with the latest cancellation of 2,500 flights by American Airlines over the past three days.

On April 8 the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered American Airlines to ground their 300 Boeing MD-80 aircraft as a result of a follow-up safety inspection audit that was conducted to check the state of repairs ordered by the FAA from a safety inspection that was conducted at Amercian Airlines two weeks ago, which found several instances of unsatisfactory repairs. This increase in oversight by FAA is in response to congressional hearings on the lack of oversight by the FAA in the recent decade, which was conducted by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on April 2.

But the real problem is that the airline industry has continued to increase outsourcing of maintenance and repair activites in a fool's attempt to cut costs. Foreign and domestic outsourced repair shops now handle two-thirds of all maintenance for American carriers, the U.S. Transportation Department says, up from 30% in 1997.

Steve MacFarlane, head of the union representing mechanics at Alaska Airlines, Southwest, and US Airways said: "Overseas outsourcing has gotten truly out of control and we've been very, very lucky that we haven't lost any airplanes." Most of the outsourcing takes place in low pay, low skill areas of the globe like El Salvador. Business Week reporetd on a company called Aeroman, which has a shop in El Salvador where the mechanics that work there get paid about $4,500 a year. Aeroman is owned by Montreal's ACE Aviation Holdings, parent company of Air Canada, and two U.S. private equity firms, KKR Private Equity Investors and Sageview, which was founded by two former executives from KKR in 2006.

Lyndon LaRouche commented today that "this is a total swindle. They are doing schlock jobs and then attaching some brand name to it, so the airlines can act like they really did maintenance. But it remains a schlock job."