[yason]

I didn't see the article in that light at all.

The point seemed to be that FAA don't really know who and how the planes are serviced and maintained. It's not a proposition of foreign work being inferior per se: it's just that FAA don't really know if the quality of work is high enough, and that it's expensive and resource-hungry to inspect foreign facilities, and that it's also impossible to do inspections without giving an advance warning.

Makes sense. But I wonder if they can't just state that only FAA certified maintenance that, further, has been regularly inspected by FAA staff is acceptable for US airliner fleets. If it's hard to inspect foreign facilities then let the airlines deal with the problem, by either bringing maintenance back to FAA soil or by paying for the FAA presence overseas.