Shell Management - genuinely surprised by your response. I am well aware of all of the incidents/accidents which you cite. And I do not think technical failures such as the 225 accident last year wait for their moment, or even indeed necessarily the operator of the aircraft to which they occur. To use that as some justification of your position is beyond belief.
I like the comment about "you binned Flightline because they failed an audit". If my understanding of the chain of events is correct, Flightline were given notice of early termination yet you + other IAC members continued to fly with them until they went bust before that termination took effect, at which point Eastern took over. So, put another way, you continued to fly with an operator whom you had deemed in some way unsuitable to fly your passengers. Most definitely a case of practicality first, safety second. I suspect you do not always practice what you preach.