Ok, which one of you is married to Helen from London?
I'll prefix the following by saying I'm married to an airline Pilot and I know dozens of others so I'm not guessing when I say:
Never fly on small regional turbo-props either - much worse safety record than jets, plus (fairly or unfairly) many pilots flying theses aircraft are only doing so because they couldn't get "jet jobs" - they weren't good enough. Pilot exhaustion is also a big factor - although possibly not at the airlines you'd imagine.
Pilots I know report the lack of understanding of the aircraft from younger FOs who tend to rely on computers t rather than treating it as another aide. This is encouraged by airlines who prefer blind adherance to SOP