Dozy;
You'd have thought Alaska would be the last airline to let those kind of shenanigans happen again after the drubbing they got over Alaska 261...
I agree. I recall that there was at least one suicide over the outfall of 261.
Clearly here, money has a longer shadow than memory of how and why things went wrong.
The problem with constant change at the top is that memory disappears with people who have moved on but the pressure for profit is inherited but without the history. The usual obvious "solutions" are invoked.
You not only have to come clean you have to be clean to start with but the problems are not sourced nor resident in individual airlines. The same sources that are now being discussed in the popular press regarding families under enormous financial stress (sometimes resulting in violence) are not that different from the financial forces that cause ordinarily rational people to compromise their own long-held professional or management values especially if one's job is on the line due to performance pressures. Standards cost, one way or another.
PJ2