Malabo (and others)
Commercial aviation is and must put safety first risks must be mitigated as much as possible. Why? Lets look at it from the ATC perspective, if NATS had a mid air or very close airprox people will lose confidence in us and they will cease to use us, our revenues will drop and we'll go out of business. The shudder that went through the entire ATC community after Überlingen can still be felt.
The same applies to aviation companies, if you think that you're much more clever than those hidebound bureaucrats who are stopping you flying and took a load of SLF aloft, then crashed and they died, how bad is that for your business, how many people are going to want to fly with a company that takes risks? Do you not think that hunkering down until this is over, albeit with massive cost implications, is preferable to getting airborne with, what the experts consider, a real possibility of an accident which will deter SLF from flying with you and your company will go bankrupt?
BD