747FOCAL.....right on. I insist the human component is the determining factor that has most blaznely been left out of the computation. Todays world ( and yesterdays too for that matter)
is designed around profit. The more you can stick in a plane on a particular route means more money generated equal covering costs in a shorter period but thats it. When most of todays airlines show profit, it is always in a comparative manner: in actual fact there are very very few that actally make money, in other words, have something left after paying everything off to the creditors.
SAFETY has taken a third place to Efficiency, first being Economy, and some people wont admit it.