employees perspective;
Thanks for the posted article.
From the article, the author (unnamed) writes:
There comes a point, however, in aviation when safety can really damage the bottom line. Were Qantas to crash, the premium for safety would be wiped out with devastating consequences for the stock price.
Such are the ethics of airline managments and shareholders today that the only comment ever offered regarding their concerns over safety is, "
There comes a point, however, in aviation when safety can really damage the bottom line".
The corporate concern is not for the passengers and crew, not for the professional ethics that each of their pilots and flight attendants holds dear regarding the safety of their passengers, but... "
the bottom line".
Wow. It doesn't get much more succinct than that.
What on earth has this industry come to?