To that end, I would be actively impressed were a statement to be issued from the IAA to the effect that no airline pilot under their jurisdiction should be afraid of bringing safety-related concerns about their Company to them and that any such concerns raised would be treated in the strictest confidence. Also I would be even more impressed were they to give a definitive statement that no names of complainants have ever been released back to the airlines in question.
To what end exactly ?
As that is the current position then making public statements on it would be treated with "well they would say that wouldn't they".
IAA and CAA are operating within remit of respective Governments / EU law and are responsible to them not a badly researched TV program pretty much ignored by 99% of the population. If people have proof that they are not doing this then respective Depts of Transport would be interested in hearing it.
Funny that no ex Ryanair pilot has ever publicised that they made anonymous safety reports to IAA and were dismissed a week later.
Aside from claiming some people in IAA may have aviation experience with an airline.............WOW who would have thunk it.........maybe we should be asking do Aviation Regulation Bodies have people working from them who have no aviation experience.
All that has occurred is a group claiming to represent pilots, who have failed on each attempt to get a union, used a badly written and researched TV program to try and make their case.