| As a licensed engineer who has worked on a lot of these aircraft from a variety of airlines which service NZ I can say you are talking through a hole in your head. Some of the maintenance on foreign aircraft is scary and its easy to see where they make their savings. Like a US based carrier having at least 2 of its aircraft grounded at Auckland for structural repairs, an Asian aircraft ordered to return home with no passengers, below 10,000' and unpressurized due to toilet fluid corroding it's way through the bottom of thefuselage. These things don't make the news in NZ for some reason. And remember a certain airline's 747 s dragging it's tail on takeoff due to wrong takeoff weight being entered in the computer? No of course not, that wasn't Air NZ so that's ok. You may think Qantas has problems recently, but their aircraft, and Air NZ's ARE serviced properly. There is a lot more to operating aircraft safely than giving cheap flights. |
