Well said Ornis.
I was 10 years old when 901 hit Erebus and remember it well.
Awful.
Many years later having worked at NZ at a senior level, I regrettably concur with the previous poster; at the time I was there its corporate culture was defined by arrogance.
One colleague described it as being like a cult; it had a sense of entitlement and importance far out of proportion to its true status and relevance... reaching it's peak under the previous CEO.
I've struck the same thing at Telecom, Chorus, Telstra to name a few.
However, how that might flow through to flight operations I can't speculate.
My sense was that those who flew were much more pragmatic.