So ACMS, you give up flying when the wind gets above light and variable?
So are Qantas pilots regarded as cowboys when they fly into YMML on a hot Northerly day and it is gusting 50 kts? Likewise places such as Hobart, Adelaide or Perth on windy days. I reckon the Qantas and Scarenorth boys probably had a fair few options if they had to divert due WX.
Some of the newer "ace" Virgin captains don't seem to have had much experience in bad weather,or exposure to it, you only had to see the way some of them carried on in the crappy weather Christmas week on the East coast.
Perhaps you could spend a day with King Island Airlines and go down to windy on King Island when its gusting up to 70 kts in a Chieftain.