Roadtrip;
It's about absolute control. Airline managers in the US, are, on the whole, have astonishingly bad leadership skills. They have come out of the schools of accounting and see everything in terms of dollars, not realizing that you need to LEAD a company, not drive it. The other part of that most executives in the US really don't care about the industry they're in, or the end result, but only how many tens of millions of dollars they can soak out of it as fast as possible. The traitors that drove the banking industry in the US off the cliff, while they pocketed literally hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses and compensation are proof of this. These guys are not incompetent. Far from it. They knew exactly what they were doing.
Well, it's very sad but that post deserves quoting in full because it is absolutely 100% correct. We at FDA have been pushing rope for a decade and nobody wants anything to do with it, hates it and ignores it every chance they get. It's a box tick because they don't really know the business they're in. No executive I have ever met and I've met all of them here, understands the principles of flight safety and how such programs work to protect the very thing they care for most and which is priority #1 - shareholder value. They're comfortably numb.
lomapaseo;
If this is about identifying causal factors and solutions is it then not entirely in the realm of the safety office for the airlines and the people who share lessons between airlines?
What would you think of a flight safety department that is run by, financed by and reports directly to, the VP of Flt Ops? What flight safety information do you think is going to get past the palace guards to the CEO, (assuming s/he cares to know in the first place)?