We as professional pilots know that commercial pressures have won out.
Where is the evidence to back up these new so called safe limits and who exactly measures them?
Its one thing for the public to be fooled where is the voice of reason from our own community. This problem will occur again NOW is the time for various pilot representatives to be vocal if the governing agencies wont protect the traveling public then surely we MUST!!
Check with your local safety committe and ask what they have heard from ALPA/IFALPA, etc.
This is more than than engine testing, it also has to do with geological, weather and routing. Take that data and weigh it against the historical experience of what has been safe, what has been unsafe , and what corner of the spectrum are we in today. I suspect that this has already been done with all the parties in conjunction.
From my read most of the nail biting has to do with lack of knowledge about what corner are we in today, the known or the unknown?