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Outsourcing In The Airline Industry

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Outsourcing in aviation has become a very common practice. It now encompasses everyone from manufactures like Boeing and Airbus to airlines outsourcing their maintenance, ground labor, even ticketing and customer service. Usually most proponents of outsourcing will cite that it saves money and possibly increases knowledge sharing, which can lead to new innovations. Those that are against outsourcing often bring up the fact that you can easily loose quality control, poor customer service and possible jeopardize safety in the pursuit of saving money. On the airline level outsourcing has taken over as the new standard for most airlines. This outsourcing starts at baggage handlers, ticket agents and airline operations at most smaller …show more content…

Those against outsourcing argue that both safety and the quality of the product is in jeopardy. Another issue with outsourcing is that fact that jobs are lost or moved when they are outsourced. This can easily be considered unethical as large companies are only trading profit at the cost of stability of jobs, and future generations of local workers. Just because a company can outsource and save some money it may not be the most ethical choice for the company or its workers. I believe that the focus should be on ethics when it comes to outsourcing, it is important for companies to be able to make a profit, though this profit should never come at the loss of jobs at home, these jobs provide stability for families and this stability is the backbone of future generations. Without building a strong infrastructure for future workers we are only weakening our industries and our country. Another problem I see is that many companies that are outsourcing overseas are doing so to save money, not only from labor costs but from paying taxes. I believe if there were better tax incentives

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