I think it's relevant to this discussion to mention at a recent CASA seminar when discussing combing RPT and charter AOCs the presenter said something along the lines of "Canberra felt passengers deserved the same safety getting onto a 747 as 207."
According to the ATSB statistics here:
https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/435594...-067_final.pdf
Charter is already safer than low volume RPT.
Its interesting to do a benchmark against road safety. Australia has about 17 m vehicles. The ABS says they travel about 17 billion km per annum. A pretty good overall average speed is 50 km/h. This equates to 340 million hours. Last year 1188 people were killed on Australian roads. Or about 379 fatalities per million hours on the road. The equivalent charter figure is 4.2.
Why do we have such a double standard? Why isn't there any concern about making it as safe to get on a bus as a 207?