KMD
One must understand that the air transport activity of any airline only exists to provide cash flow to head office executives, their consultants and their corporate lawyers who all get paid before anyone else. The rest of the organization only exists to provide a excuse to scam the assets of their shareholders and employees. God bless America!
What a poorly thought out remark! If you are that cynical about the airlines, how is it any different in any other profit-making business? Why would it be any different in any other economic model? I spent years in the USAF; a cynic could say the same thing there, except promotions, not profit, were the incentive. This is just over the top cynical. ANY organization that operated as you suggest would soon be out of business, not exactly a long-term business model.
The fact that the two pilots were poorly trained, lacked any degree of professionalism is the real source of the accident. In fact, I think lack of professionalism, lack of skills that they brought to the cockpit was the problem and the company had nothing to do with that, other than not being able to properly vet their backgrounds.
GF