well said Keg
- perhaps a digression to some however I would say 'on topic' given that the baseline for any airline's profitable operation is the fact that pax confidence and market confidence are not mutually exclusive.
- whether it is confidence in the safety of those onboard, or the confidence for your cash that's paid for advance tickets - without it, things can go very wobbly, very quickly.
(qualifier: confidence reference above though should not be confused with Godfrey & co's hypoxic like 'over-confidence' which clearly is doing more damage than good)
sidebar:
actually the Hudson excursion had another similarlity to
VB in that it did not carry liferafts either .............
that (now well expired & unjustified) dispensation just keeps getting a rolling continuance eh!
AT 