Only 70 flight hours on an MPL, the rest in simulators. One MCC/APS operator was offering a state-of-the-art fixed base NG sim at £80 an hour dry recently. The margins in an MPL are huge, that's why the big ATOs like them. L3 should have recognised what FTE clearly did, that reputation has a value. Mind you, FTE would have acted decently even if no-one was watching. As it is, who would go to L3 for anything now? The moral for megacorps is choose the managers of your subsidiaries carefully.