Originally Posted by
jcjeant
Estimated price of all searches is 18 million Euros
A330-200 factory list price (2010) is 191.4 million dollars
Everything is relative ...
That sounds like a large discrepancy, but what's the all-up manufacturing cost of an A330-200 (including development) per unit sold?
Originally Posted by
chrisN
Dozy, I think that if the legal liability, and hence the insurance costs, are included in the “market” place for airline X
The problem is that in an entirely unregulated economy, the judiciary would be as up for sale as any corporation - hell, we even have that now! Say a crash killed 300 families and they were able to donate an average of, say, $3,000* to the legal fund - a large corporation would still be able to outspend them.
(Edited to add – In fact, when the legal costs are finally added up for Air France, I would not be at all surprised if the savings in training with no manual flying at cruise altitude, lack of UAS comprehension, poor CRM etc. are exceeded by the costs.)
True, but the peculiarity of the Continental legal system as well as the social democratic system of government means that AF and Airbus have to fight criminal as well as civil proceedings as a matter of course. In a deregulated economy, they'd be able to buy their way out of trouble.
[* - Comrade Dozy uses imperialist denomination for ease of reference...
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