Some contributions are quite annoying. Monday morning quarterback with a beer can and popcorn in mouth and hands comes to my mind.
To them when buying a ticket only cut-throat price matters, but when boarding the plane they nearly wet their pants and pray to whatever that the pilots are well trained, well rested and mentally not shattered by bullying management. They however soothe their momentary guilt (should I have avoided that obnoxious managers’s loco?) with the lifeline that the regulator would have certainly intervened if this outfit were unsafe. Well, keep on praying! Regulators will always prefer to side with airline management and manufacturer, pilots can’t reward as handsomly and are chickenfeed of the industry. Today there are no regulators no more, their name is generally ‘Administration’ and that’s what they have become. No proactivity, no accountability, they are federal employees after all ……
The problem is here to stay because of all the protagonists (airline, regulator, employee, customer) there is only one interested to genuinly address the problem. Take a wild guess. The other three are all only interested in their own wallet.
Any accident, be it due to lack of training, rest or basic human respect for pilots, will generate a momentary outcry and some futile activity, mainly in written, but will be followed by shrugging shoulders and the eternal repetition that it would cost too much and generally flying is so safe, blah, blah.
Brace for some more Logan Air (fatigue), Asiana (training) and Germanwings (mental destruction of pilots) accidents. And brace for some more silly contributions from people having no exposure to the depth of the problem.