Kenny
If people did better at school then more career paths would be open to them, thus giving them a wider choice. At least this site tends to spread it's bashing liberaly throughout the available targets and doesn't just generalise. Anyway politicians are ther to be targets for this sort of thing, it just so happens that the liabor government make such an easy target of themselves.
Being a member of the AT brotherhood, albeit at ground crew level, I can ensure you that from my side of things we work effing hard to ensure all tasking is met, available aircraft and spares permiting, and the crews do their bit as well to make sure everything runs smoothly at their end. It is those responsible for tasking and planning that tend to cause the problems. Imagine an aircraft coming back from a long route, at about 02:00, and being tasked to go again at 07:00. You can guarante that it will be carrying snags, which need fixing, and the worlds biggest role change not to mention the flight servicings. None of the rects can get done untill the A/F is sorted, the role can't get done till the snags have been done, etc.