WF, my apologies, - I did not mean to attack you personally, you have every right to your opinion, as of course do I. Only History will prove who was right so do not withdraw!
It is merely that I am fiercely protective of what we built up between about 1989 and 2009. Expensive yes, but not as expensive as the crime rate we were fighting then. Economies were required, that is totally accepted but not in the way that came about. Crime tends to be reciprocal so if we take down our guard??
As has already been said we must now work with it to make the best of it. But Please never try to tell me that this is better.
Incidentaly I think that current fleet of 26 a/c includes the 3 spares! It is not 26 actual operational machines. Happy to be corrected.
TF