Colgan had some problems back in "the old days". But that has been pretty well cleaned up. Our Saabs are old - average about 30000 hours per aircraft. But the company stays on top of them pretty good. I've noticed in the last year that fewer MEL's run to expiration. I just looked back at my flight records. In the past 12 months I've had to cancel just five flights for a mx problem and delay a total of 19 more than 10 minutes. That's out of a little over 750 flights. What's that...24/750 or 3.2%. I don't know how that relates to everyone else...I have twice as many wx cancels and delays.

Some of the guys who are based at the mx bases complain a little louder because they get stuck with the test and ferry flights that are normal to any airline operation.