With the entry of a number of new posters, the thread is now chasing it's own tail with all these comments about ACARS, SATCOM and personal opinions about cultural differences and flight safety and micro-interpretations regarding tiny nuances of the BEA report and the safety records of various airlines. These issues were either dealt with a thousand posts ago, or are irrelevant and inconclusive. Given that those who were contributing good, creative stuff that got us somewhere have gone silent, I suspect for most these fly****-in-pepper mini-me points are mind-numbingly trivial. Can we not do better than this?