Originally Posted by
OldnGrounded
This. The trust model may not be irreparably broken forever, but this fiasco has broken it badly and for a long time.
The public may well come to the point of trusting Boeing and the FAA again, but it's a pretty good bet that developments such as SWA pilots and AA FAs raising safety questions in very public ways will reinforce real fear and hesitation, which the disasters and screwups reported over the past year have already strongly motivated.
Unfortunately, it is the entire industry that has moved in the shareholders'/beancounters' direction. We have seen in this and other threads reports on the severe reduction in hand flying, the reductions in simulator time and exacerbating that a formulaic approach to simulator training to avoid expensive failures and reruns, very reduced initial training - much of it done only in simulators with very little in live aircraft, and very small hours requirements for the right hand seat etc etc.
Safety is our first priority?
All the holes in the cheese are getting bigger so it is far easier for them to line up.