Returning to the subject, people may be interested to know that the official Airbus A320 policy on taxi speeds is that you let the aircraft run up to 30kts uncorrected and then apply the brakes to return it to 10 kts before letting it run up to 30kts again. Strange no doubt but that is the party line. Obviously you make allowances for corners etc, but I find myself agreeing with the majority of contributors here - there but for the grace of God go I.
Also I simply do not accept that this is to do with low cost operations. No one says that the spate of drinking and flying incidents over the last couple of years is a 'national carrier' issue, but if it happened to easyJet or Ryanair then everyone would say it was clearly a result of the terrible stress theses guys/gals are living under. At the end of the day I personally believe that so much of all this stuff boils down to the individual sat behind the controls in the cockpit regardless of which company he/she works for. Or is that too simplistic?