International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace Volume 7 Issue 1 Article 7 2020 Managing Safety Risks in Airline Maintenance Outsourcing Rajee Olaganathan Dr. Rajee Olaganathan,
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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.erau.edu/ijaaa Part of the Aviation Safety and Security Commons Scholarly Commons Citation Olaganathan, R., Miller, M., & Mrusek, B. M. (2020). Managing Safety Risks in Airline Maintenance Outsourcing. International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace, 7(1). https://doi.org/ 10.15394/ijaaa.2020.1435 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Olaganathan et al.: Managing Safety Risks in Airline Maintenance Outsourcing Managing Safety Risks in Airline Maintenance Outsourcing Due to the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, the aviation industry in the US faced less competition for nearly 40 years i.e., between 1938 and 1978. Aircraft maintenance is an important and necessary task that is required to maintain the airworthiness of the aircraft, ensuring it is safe for operation. Before deregulation, the airlines normally carried out the maintenance tasks in-house, but this trend later changed. Two developments that occurred in the aviation industry led to the shift from in-house maintenance to outsourcing. The first is the airline deregulation act (1978) which removed the barriers and paved way for the expansion of the aviation industry.