Sohat,
Very good post and I lean towards agreeing with most of what you said.
"For example, I know from personal experience that the EJME maintenence department is very short staffed."
Do you know that its about to get much worse in this department? I just heard a rumour that one of the top EJME engineers has been hired to replace the manager for the Indian gent who owns the RJ & 605 that the company manages.
Evidently the old aviation dept manager was in a car versus bike accident and is paralyzed from the waist down, so they had to find someone to take this over. Hiring someone from EJME to fill this slot was not the best option IMHO but evidently its already been done and he leaves the company in a month or less, leaving EJME in an even worse condition in the maintenance department.