I'm not taking sides in this argument but venture to say that some of the claims of justification made by the participants are somewhat misinformed and baseless. I have 18,000+ hours operating several models of jet transport aircraft from narrow to wide body long haul plus 2000+ hours of C & T in simulators in my logbook, during my 33 years of aviation career in Asia. All those hours were chalked up in equipment maintained in line and heavy maintenance in Asia. ALEA's assertions that nobody can do it as safely and better than them is I'm afraid to say, a complete red herring! Standing by for incoming!
