I'm always fascinated by international person's views on company maintenance, external to the company and within.
All too happy to hang sh*t on our practices, but basically happy to take company money and enjoy its hard fought for terms and conditions. Tosser's!
No other airline has our reputation; if we accept world practices, which our largely European executives seem to think is the way, the truth and the light, then we accept world accident and incident rates, standards etc. we will see a crash in the jet era the more cuts we make if we are accepting of those standards.
We may have incidents to this day due to in-house mx, sure, I don't think they are as bad as they could be thanks to 96 years worth of continuous operational experience.
All that is about to be and has been trashed; our image is to be this - Qantas - the same as any other airline - accidents and all!