You are not listening cunninglinguist.
The cutting in Qantas has been going on for years!
I never said Sky Gods are Sky Gods.
They are just pilots working for a company with a very long history and proud culture.
Do you really believe that Qantas would have survived as long as it has if the operational front line of the company adopted an attitude of near enough is good enough, excellence through indifference.
The justification of BKK is not mine, that quote was straight out of the ATSB report. So are the ATSB wrong in their summation?
Is more training than the bare statutory minimums more ,or less likely to mitigate accidents?
No one is immune from the risk of human error, even Sky Gods.
However extensive ,thorough, training will add more slices of cheese to the RISK MODEL. More slices of cheese means less risk, it does not mean NO risk, a big difference that you don't seem to quite grasp!