Professor,
As part of a long term madness Qantas for a minor plus on the groups balance sheet has striven to decimate it's engineering department.
Gone are the day's of 99% despatch reliability, aircraft that left main base for overseas flying or started their days domestic flying with "nil defects", so what! the risk managers might say, the what is now there for all to see, absolute chaos and will get worse not because of so called greedy engineers, you know the guy's who went three years without a pay rise (totalling 9%).
Lay the blame squarely where it belongs, that is at the feet of the management style which ignores the basics, refuses to listen as to why things were done the way they were and arrogantly insists that engineering needs a fiscal lobotomy and must be hived off.