say again slowly, I can only speak from my own experience, I am certainly no fan of emeralds management, however, I never felt pressured to take an aircraft which I felt was unsafe or needed engineering.
There was a culture of "get the job done" but as the guys you spoke to in ops were mainly young lads, they, to my knowledge, never put pressure on crews to carry an unsafe fault.
The only pressure I felt was that our jobs depended on the contracts and not letting the customer down.
I cannot remember being coerced by management to taking an aircraft that i was unhappy with, maybe you had a different experience?