Really? So you're saying that the public aren't interested in such things...?
Perhaps you should cast your mind back to Easter of several years ago when the biggest news story was Ansetts
self admission that they weren't complying with an
advisory issued by Boeing.
Feeton, I think patriot 1 summed it up best on the Virgin Blue ETOPS thread:
Ansett was grounded and subsequently destroyed for an issue significantly less than this, and I might add, an issue which was labelled "non-compliant" by CASA, but later refuted by Boeing and BASI reports. This current issue is an overt, non-contested, blatant breach of the mandate. If the media knew what ETOPS was then this would be national news.
But then again, Virgin Blue doesn't require the same standards applied to itself as an organisation, because they're the
little Aussie underdog, battling to keep the air fair... 