“You wouldn't go to see a low cost heart surgeon would you?!”
Yes. If the surgeon provided surgery for lower cost, why not.
If a surgeon could trim the cost of an operation by reducing service such as no magazines in the waiting room, no validated car parking out back, fewer office staff at the counter, no free coffee, then why would you pay for the extras if you don’t want them?
The implication that a “low cost airline” is staffed by employees of lesser competence than those at legacy carriers is simply not supported by fact. As far as I am aware, the same regulator is providing oversight to QF and the low cost entrants.
TN/AN/QF have all been involved in incidents similar to the Air Asia one described above, in some cases on numerous occasions. Were they crewed by low cost pilots?
It’s a slippery slope to start pointing fingers at incidents made by those of lower salary.