seat 0A:
Utter nonsense, this article.
How did this MEP find out that the flight had "difficulties in landing"?
The cabin crew can't differentiate between a good landing and one "with difficulties". They just think a soft landing is a good one. And I'm sure they fly more than this MEP.
Aside from that, any linetraining is a training flight, right?
The fact is that winds were calm on that day and the aircraft was only able to land at the third attempt. In its speech the captain attributed the go-arounds to tricky winds...
..and line training is not to train FO's ability to handle landing and take-offs on a particular aircraft, its to prepare them for the operational issues of different routes and environments. Two subsequent go-arounds make one think if that particular first officer was really prepared to handle a jet...and if it is correct to train pilot's basic skills with passengers on board.
One may argue that all regular airlines, at some point will have low hour pilots at the controls. But those companies don't do it for a living, so the risk is must less, once they will only do it when in need for new pilots. By opposition to that philosophy there are a number of companies who tend to explore the new business of pay-to-fly. Once they do it on a regular basis, they play with the odds...what shocks us, is to see AF doing that sort of flights. I don't believe their passengers have payed to to play the role of crash test dummies...