Let’s stop barking up the non-existing tree, it’s embarrassing and naïve……….
The world’s population wants air travel and wants to travel for peanuts. The world wide industry needs air travel and it wants it cheap, to maximize profits. Each country wants its citizens and industry to be happy, so they encourage the regulators to “help” the national airline industry to satisfy this demand. To reduce cost, the first measure is generally to increase unit numbers, in this case airplanes. The airlines start massive buying and bargain manufacturers into cut throat price cuttings, which are then generously covered by taxpayer’s money, with compliments of the government to the home industry (thanks for the campaign contribution, by the way). Then they work their existing flight staff to the utmost limit, train huge numbers of new ones with minimum syllabi, all with the incompetent consent of local regulators who are way out of their league, very often un-promoted and unhappy ex-airline clerks. The government couldn’t care less, everybody’s happy, except maybe some airline employees representations, who are most probably the only ones seeing the whole picture and able expose this scam. But their concern would implicate more and proper training/regulation, this means more cost, so discredit them and dump it. The press is of no help either. They need headlines, so why support the right thing, namely more safety? It would bar them from scoops and sensational pictures.
“Safety” has become a word as hollow as “democracy”. But because the chances of being victim of the perversion of either of these terms are slim, nobody gives a toss.