Ok, for you professional types - I'm ready to be shot down
and this may have been addressed already) BUT..
Reduced number of pax (30%) will require an increased number of flights (30%?). What does this do for the frequency of potential ditching. It occurs to me that, statistically, they should increase.
I don't know all of the details but, again, it occurs to me that we are dealing with survivability (and I'm all for that) , after ditching, without actually improving the fundamental issue of NOT ditching in the first place.
All with good intent, to learn