I doubt there's a regular of this forum (and even the irregulars
) who would say other than that standards across BA have dropped. For myself, I
guess that they have also dropped in engineering because I
guess the mgmt won't allow the time (aka money) to do jobs in anything other than the minimum. I
know that BA deny that and always have done and always will.
Even if there is a smoking hole [excluding the special case of BA 0038], they will deny it because they believe that they are all operating within the law and the regulations and the spirit of the regulations. But human nature says otherwise.
Once again for the record, I have never worked in the airline biz and am always happy to fly BA but I would not share a park bench with their mgmt or mgmt of BASSA.