Junior LFA you are right. I have no problem with that. Similarly the previous accident I think. But how do you extrapolate from two fatal accidents in ten years of operation to “systematically unsafe”? That is where I may have issues.
I can’t help thinking that there is some well connected greaseball waiting to launch a taxpayer funded alternative to AF.
As for the statistics about RPT being dramatically safer, it probably is, but one A380 going down in Sydney CBD will change that. Accident occurrences in RPT are very infrequent but large. The Feyneman appendix to the Challenger report is still worth reading again and again.