Originally Posted by Glendalgoon
Most planes are pretty good. Stuff happens. IF you want to prevent all accidents are you prepared to pay 4 times current ticket prices to get even half a percent safer travel?
Oh come on. Say that to the thousands of relatives of those killed recently. AF447 and virtually every other recent prang has been caused by Loss of Control. If you're quite happy for this to continue, good for you. I suspect that most of the travelling public wouldn't be but they accept it because of total ignorance. Chuck a extra couple of dollars onto every ticket to pay for more Sim training. Nobody could care less about the increased cost. Will air travel be decimated? Of course not.
Teddy is partially right: "1) handing the management of flight ops to the accounts department on a plate" but that is a natural consequence of regulators that are obviously happy to accept the status-quo.