Hey Jabawocky......You pinched my line about Darth re-acquiring the Longreach museum aircraft....but it's a good one isn't it?
I could just imagine them asking the museum.."Hey guys could we borrow them for a month or two?"
With looking for someone to blame you forget to mention the engineers.If they had only agreed to work for nothing and be on call for 24 hours a day or even just live (at their own expense of course) on the Jetbase then the company would not have had to go to all the trouble of out sourcing maintenance...and everything would be sweet....Sorry I forgot to say that the company would probably also want the engineers to pay for spare parts as well...
As far as the story about the 300 shutting down an engine in flight goes...it's probably another company initiative to save fuel....
