confirmation Bias
Your observations about cutting costs are correct; indeed at bmi we've been doing that for sometime now, along with s/e taxi-out'which has saved 6 figure sums p/a. on our relatively small fleet, but, as was mentioned on a thread in another place, the savings mentioned above don't seem to be included in the deal; it's thrust seems purely to cut employee costs. I don't doubt that attempts to include such savings will be made in the future, but that's for another day.