Re post #56 and 'the aircraft are falling apart':
I'd be very surprised if this so. When I worked in the hangar there, the aircraft were over-maintained, if anything, with tyres/brakes/sparkplugs etc being replaced long before they were due. The certifying staff always kept the standards at a high level and I never saw any consistent unreliability with fleet aircraft in the two years I was there.
It would be interesting to hear what constitutes 'aircraft falling apart' as opposed to the occasional unserviceability that is bound to happen during heavy utilisation.