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I am certainly not digging at the RAF or the team there, i do agree, they do a good job, and things were not all that rosy as you put it. I dont think for one minute BAE staff are evil money grabbers, quite the opposite, i have had to survive on their pay.
However, not wishing to divert to far from this thread, BAE are contracted to "deliver" under this contract, and are paid well for it, yet still as the prime contractor and with all their experience, they seem to fall short.
If you run a contract similar to this within an airline these days, and i have been involved with such contracts, BAE would have lost the business by now, and after all, its a business.