Being LoCo the driving force of the increased competition, can we be absolutely sure 100% that this is not putting LoCo pilots under more pressure?
On the contrary, the fact that the locos have put such extreme pressure on the profits of the exisiting "conventional" carriers have meant that it is they, not the locos that are under pressure to save money, often with disasterous results (do the words heathrow and gate gormet mean anything?).
It is not low cost, but low profit (or heavey loss!!) that drives suicidal cost cutting exersizes. As the locos have been the most profitable sector of the industry since their inception, they have had the least pressure to compromise saftey (indeed, as so much relies on public perception, they have been VERY motivated to act safely), something that i believe the accident statistcs would bear out.