Originally Posted by
Mariner9
Couldn't a similar safety case argument about cost share be made? Do I feel more pressure to complete the flight if it costs me £30 instead of £60
Indeed it's fundamental to the case for cost-sharing that the marginal cost of doing the flight vs cancelling it is positive. If you cancel you
save money. By contrast, a commercial operator
loses money (the margin he would have made, over and above the direct cost) if he cancels a flight, hence extra regulation is required for commercial beyond what is required for a purely private or cost-sharing flight. (That's not the only reason for regulating CAT more strictly than private flights, but it's one of them).