Hi Tees,
Re the redtop decision, I bow to your obviously superior knowledge on that. I'm only repeating what I was told by a long-time operator with them who was on the inside at the time.
Re the engineers loving it. You would have recognised utter hatred in the eyes of the engineer I saw last week! But it was freezing in the hangar which didn't help!
Further to engineering, the 135 is a delight to Check A. The 902 isn't (it can be a complete pain). That's because everything's high up on the machine. That's the downside of the big cabin.
You mention the "902's problems to date." I would take issue with the "to date" part of your comment there. I'm probably tempting providence but things are pretty good at the moment and have been for some time. We could engage in "what if LT does this or that" but certainly the support I see for the 902s I deal with is the same if not superior to that of the 135s I see.