Dolly
I don't doubt that in my own, and probably most other airlines their are middle managers and execs who would rather not have to consider safety above profit as for them it is irritating as their annual bonus depends on the airlines profit.
I never saw any behaviour like that.
What I did see was the knife edge economics of running an airline severely constraining options.
Even the CAA is very careful about introducing 'asymmetric requirements' that would allow other airlines in other jurisdictions to have an advantage, something that becomes clear if one reads Hansard from 1999 (the committee I mentioned earlier in the thread.)
As I said before, the airlines do a very good job of making trade offs.