Bearfoil,
My point is that it's not productive to single out one operator when it almost seems to be a national culture towards aviation that is causing these problems, with management, atc and flightcrew leaving a lot to be desired. You make a fair comment with the fact that the USA has busy airports but it's no excuse. LHR or AMS are good examples of how well it can be done from the ATC side.
One case as an example. We were operating a heavy jet into SFO, having just turned down a visual approach and requested r/v on to 28R. Atc got a little narked at our request for extra track miles and despite receiving the extra miles we turned onto the localiser at approx 10dme 1000ft above the glideslope at 200kts. Atc ask if we're visual with the (major US carrier) 767 a mile ahead on the parallel localiser. We eventually spot them 1000ft above us (so they're at 5000ft). We use gear and speedbrake to get stable on the g/s by 5dme and sit back and watch the show.
The 767 dangles everything and then chases the g/s, we're expecting to see a missed approach but they just keep coming down. At 3 dme they're still 700ft high. At 1.5 dme they get below the g/s and fly level at 400ft, then go deep and land well past the tdz. Their GPWS must've been going mental, with multiple 'sink rate' and 'glideslope' warnings. At no point were they stable on the approach vertical profile.
Who could've performed better? ATC should never have offered such a short approach. The flightcrew should never have accepted it, and should have gone around when it became apparent how sporty the approach was. The training department should be shot for ever giving the impression that that was a safe way to operate a heavy jet. The airline management are at fault for creating a culture where that type of flying is acceptable, and for not having an automatic reporting system for flagging that type of behaviour and correcting it.
On that occasion, onto a long dry runway in CAVOK met with a good headwind they got away with it. Their safety margins were severely eroded but a minor distraction, or shift in the wind could have caused a catastrophe. On a dark stormy night in Bermuda?
Until the collective mentality changes, these incidents will continue to happen and people will get hurt.
LD