This is understandable given the reduction in experience levels,
Aha, now we're close to identifying WHY there was an increasing number of unstable approaches, and the reason for the slower speeds.
For close to a decade now, we've watched airlines seeing "how low they can go" by putting very low time pilots into the rhs, and then how quickly they could promote them to the left.
Personally, I have been waiting for what I thought
had to be an inevitable increase in accidents, because of the increasingly low experience levels on the flight decks. The ducks are still lining up, I believe.
And this reduction in experience was done at a time of a pilot surplus - simply as a cost-cutting measure.
(As an aside, I was told recently of a company that is "offering" a 737 rating, followed by 500 hours lhs time, with a Turkish company, for USD50K
.......imagine the flight, "Hi, I'm Captain Shiney - this is my first flight as a Captain."
"Oh my name's Glossy - I paid 30 K for a 73 rating, and an F/O's job. First day out for me, too!"
"Hullo Captain. Hullo First Officer, my name's Betty Boobs. It's my first time as a Flight Attendant - I paid this company $10,000 for 6 months on the job experience, and so did the other girls. This is going to be an exciting flight for me!").
So the "low cost" pilots might have seemed a good idea at the time, but the LONG TERM
INCREASED costs are now implemented as part and parcel of the system.
The system of employing nil/low experience level drivers, might work okay on busses and trains - although the train crash in Osaka last week, caused by an inexperienced driver being put under pressure to perform by the company, that cost around 170 lives (and the positions of several upper level managers' jobs), is causing a re-think - however aircraft pilots have several other factors to contend with, that NEVER figure on earthbound transport.
Unfortunately, there has been too much interference by people who have NO actual, practical aviation experience, and their interference is ADDING to the operational costs.
All you need in life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure Mark Twain