Surely if they cut corners on safety issues as is being inferred they would have had an incident or at least one or two close calls? I monitor this and other similar sites regularly and I've heard of nothing to date.
Is this statement not a case of "burying ones head in the sand?"..."They've not had a crash yet so they must be safe..." I can't comment on the specifics of safety at FR, I've flown with them a couple of times and they seemed OK, cheap and cheerful. I've flown with better airlines, but then I've paid a lot more to do so, it's true that you get what you pay for, and for 20-quid a flight or whatever it was I paid, that seems fair enough...
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