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[flapsforty]

HKGPax, legislation is slow.
The airline business is hidebound and loath to spend money on anything that doesn't immediately improve the bottom line.

Passengers are fickle and many do not give a flying f*ck about the safety features provided by the airline they choose. Again, it's the price that counts; in this case the cheapest fare.

So while your recommendations certainly have merit; I doubt if I ever will see PBE's for our pax during my working life.
I used to carry with me a portable PBE on my travels for use in hotel fires and the like.
Reading this thread reminds me that I should get a new one. The previous one was bought via the company, but they have stopped providing that service.
The only links I could find on the web were these 2.
1 & 2

Neither of them in Europe, which makes shipping and import taxes rather high.
Anyone can provide me with the name of a European manufacturer, I'd be grateful.

PS: Oh and Chris, regarding your remark about "most of the response in this forum seems to be driven by emotion rather than logic". I would't say most, but some are.
That is in fact one of the main differences between your stereotype pilot and your stereotype FA.
Still and all, it isn't exactly as if emotion, irrationaility and juvenile response were absent in the other forums, is it now?