Duluth airport maintenance base to open by December
October 15, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
AAR Aircraft Services announced Monday that its new Duluth aircraft maintenance base will be operational by December, with its first customer and a start-up crew of about 60.
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Lest we forget why NWA closed the base in 2005. Duluth workers joined striking NWA employees at Minneapolis-St Paul and seeing a no-win situation, NWA shut down their facilities and outsourced the work. Duluth and Minnesota taxpayers were left holding the bag on a tax subsidized enterprise that was no longer viable and the Duluth job market was flooded with unemployed, Duluth’s reputation was stained by more bad PR, and the local economy sufferred.
I certainly hope that we don’t see a repeat of that this time around. There are only so many lifelines to throw to a nascent aerospace industry here.
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