I dunno about the rest of you guys but I am fast tiring of the media's reporting of relatively standard engineering incidents. ie
I don't know about you but I'm getting tired of
1) all these incidents that are occurring, and I'm sure its down to lack of maintenance (read cost cutting)
2) the fact that every time one of these "incidents" occur, Qantas and their apologists all jump up and down saying "there was no danger" it was a "routine fault" , blah, blah, blah
The time for excuses is long over. Qantas needs to get back to a proper "Australian" headcount for maintenance, and do it PROPERLY with fully trained engineeers who have pride in their WORLDCLASS workmanship. Not some skeleton staff that have been beaten into submission by beancounters, and who's morale is at all time lows (and the resulting "she'll be right, close enough is good enough, do I have to work overtime AGAIN, will I still have a job next week, etc that the beancounters regime has fostered)