Originally Posted by
NSEU
What I did notice over my years in the industry was that the scary airlines did seem to get their aircraft out on time, just as often as the good ones, because they were willing to fly their aircraft with masses of unserviceabilities (and their interpretation of Dispatch Deviation Guides was less than perfect). Qantas engineers work on a number of different airlines and they've grounded quite a few foreign operators' aircraft that the operators thought were ok to fly (and weren't).
Unfortunately, in some parts of the world this could be viewed as "poor performance", and such an engineer may find himself out of work if he carries on making the "incorrect" decisions.