Mass D it is probably before your time but we had a senior pilot manager some years ago who stated, "We can afford a hull loss...".
A wise chairman might have sacked him for such a statement but he retracted and stayed for a while before moving on to another jurisdiction.
I suspect that somewhere in every airline there is a number cruncher who works to the same deplorable standards of morality.
Back to the thread. Yes Sully has energised the pilot debate in the US, and I think the congressmen that he has addressed fly frequently enough to try to improve the appalling system that exists today.