[Superman]

For the most part I agree with Wayne.

Design - Yup.

Unions - Wayne did a respectful job of describing this problem. I agree that unions should consider concessions. Unfortunately, the politics of union leadership will preclude this. I disagree about airlines. Sixteen dollars an hour is actually not what I want to pay for the mechanic that maintains aircraft that carry me aboard. That compensation package should be moved in the OTHER direction. But just as politics works against sense in union leadership, driving maintenance costs forcefully downward as a way of competing with another airlines who are already doing that......is going to bite us. Hard.

Reliability - Absolutely. This is not just perception. I'm not sure anybody knows what it would take to kill a Toyota engine. They simply don't fail.

And again, finally, I think it is hilarious that anyone might kinda, sort of, tentatively, admit the possibility that management might, maybe, in some cases, be responsible for the health of the company they direct. But it's all the unions' fault. Legion, that's like saying that the driver might, maybe, in some ways, sort of been responsible for the collision but those darned tires were really to blame. Talk about shifting responsibility. Really. Consider the twisted logic that's got you blaming company fortunes on everyone but management. Think.