Don't care for what's the politics here or what's been said.
My company and my staff don't fly low cost carriers unless the maintenance is done by competant people.
Sorry Jetstar, while your maintenance is done off shore you dont meet my company policy.
My staff fly Qantas.
Dear Qantas, I hear that you are offshoring maintenance as well. I am already researching this as my staff fly SYD - PER on A330's.
This may mean you loose this sector to Virgin.
I recently had the option to fly between SYD and DPS. I chose Garuda because if I have the necesity to fly an airline maintained in a developing country, it might as well be in real business.
Dear airlines -- customers DO CARE WHERE THE AIRCRAFT IS MAINTAINED.