“I didn't know about that one. What happened?”
Do some research; the information is out there.
“Does the author really think that taking away magazines,coffee etc.....would have a significant impact on medical costs?”
No, I did not imply that such a practice would make a “significant” impact. I was using the example to illustrate a principal. You have obviously missed the main point I am trying to make.
The qualifications and competency of the surgeon, like the pilot of a low cost carrier, are unrelated to the services provided in the waiting room of the surgery or the cabin of an aeroplane. Some carriers such as Ryanair anticipate reducing service to virtually zero including the provision of standing room only. But they will not be employing pilots with less experience or providing them with fewer training sessions.
The pilot has the same licensing requirements and training and checking targets regardless of what service is provided to the customer. There is only one regulator.
“Let's wait until those new LCC's have operated for as long and extensively as QF has and then you can sit down and compare them on an incident basis....”
Lets do it now. WN now operate almost 3500 sectors per day. They have operated 10 times more sectors in their entire history thus far than QF has in its entire history. Based on the few accidents the carriers have each had, WN outshines QF by a significant margin. WN is a low cost carrier.
“The main difference between the medical specialists and crew is that the medical specialists wouldn't undercut each other to get work.....”
No, they wouldn’t. Doctors and surgeons exist in a regulated system limiting labour access to the market place. They don’t need to undercut each other. Much like pilots once operated under the Two Airline Policy in Australia for 40 years. I don’t recall TN or AN pilots ever undercutting each other until deregulation.
Doctors and surgeons would do exactly the same were the barriers to their labour market removed.
“The reality is that the LCC is not around to benefit the passenger..... It's around to benefit the owners of the LCC....”
The stupidity of this comment has already been addressed.