I think we are overburdening the system, always eating in to the outer edges of the safety envelope. If ATC is so busy that I cannot start my R/T with a "Goodmorning, sir", there must be something wrong. And that something wrong is the overstretching of a system that in essence should have big buffers at each end to avoid the worst...
Although they "may" make business sense, these high-density low-cost operations are eating away at the soul of what aviation should be.
So now, will ATC charge us if we get a readback wrong, or if we go-around after a botched up approach, or if we fail to take the first hi-speed turn on landing...? Probably the guys at Ryanair would just forward the invoice to the crew!
I think MOL and his like should leave aviation business to gentlemen (and ladies of course) and go make his $$$ somewhere else before he gives us all a bad name in a big way when the bubble finally bursts.
Written today, the 25 of May, 2002 A.D.