Originally Posted by martin33

We're all entitled to our opinions on the staff's fineness or lack thereof, and perhaps even on the ineptness of AA's management, or lack thereof.

Calling the aircraft accidents-in-waiting is totally unwarranted. Is there a single shred of evidence showing aircraft age is a factor in accidents, per se? Aircraft age in takeoff/landing cycles, not years like people do, and in any event their "age" has been well tracked and taken account of ever since the Comet crashes of 1954.

Is it, then, an issue of trust? If so, then we ought to be asking: whom would one trust more, AA's vastly experienced fleet of in-house mechanics, or UA's (or others'?) mystery lots of outsourced someones?