a_a. Thats exactly my point - they haven't YET.
I would not to put money on when and how bad. Let me suffice to say there is my airline **** list - Ryanair might not be at the top but it's on there.
Pontius - my point was that if they buy new and shiny so they can cut back the spanner monkeys then there are less spanner monkeys available to do any task. Add in some pressure and demands from some accountant shiny arse and people will start trimming the odd corner. one thing leads to another.
Can you say the engineers at whoever does Mikeys maintenance will turn round and say, sorry skip - you can't have the jet we are not done with it on anything other than a blue moon??