It’s a slippery slope to start pointing fingers at incidents made by those of lower salary.
Not only salary, aircraft capability. As pointed out on the AirAsia YBCG thread, there is some conjecture about whether they had VNAV capability for the VOR they were doing. Certainly, on the second approach they were not using it. If somebody was saving money by not paying for that capability, then that
is a "Low Cost carrier" issue.
TN/AN/QF have all been involved in incidents similar to the Air Asia one described above, in some cases on numerous occasions.
Really? In state-of-the-art FMS-equipped aircraft? Examples?
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.
If you have a pool of prospective applicants for a selection of similar jobs at different employers, then obviously the most competition will be for the higher-paying jobs. The higher-paying employers will have more applicants to choose from. Happens in any industry, I imagine. Capitalism at work.
