Our industry used to pride itself on learning from mistakes. Let's learn from this one. Ropes attached to the pitot covers so they can be removed from ground level without having to go and find steps.
Yes until airlines decided that bonuses as opposed to straight salaries for management were a good idea. Good luck justifying your "safety" case for a longer piece of rope and a big flag attached in someone's budget prior to this incident.
Aviation in the future will be dominated by penny pinching safety reports as that is the only way anything will be justified by the accountants. They will just shoot it down on cost until we bend an aeroplane and have a starring role in a ATSB report then they can justify the cost.