Pobjoy
You are correct, things have to be different, and the best part of different is not to let the contractors who caused this fiasco within a thousand miles of the recovery contract or the maintenance and upkeep contracts that will follow.
Correctly run operating to EASA/ MIL 145 standard is only marginally more costly than the light aviation / BGA standard when the cost is spread over a fleet and his size and as long as you are flying young people who are not fully informed of the risks you have to operate to public transport standards of oversight. This assumes that you have the system in place that is staffed by people who have the required skills to run it.
You can of course try to pay peanuts but eventually the quality of monkey maintenance will catch up with you, which I think precipitated this situation in the first place.
Last edited by A and C; 31st Oct 2015 at 10:10.