Looks like this is just the beginning. Management thinks they will get away with constant cost cutting and outsourcing, but they won't - and neither will the SLF. Aviation had a large buffer-zone built in its system, but that is almost gone. Adding to this the "if-you-pay-peanuts-you-get-monkeys" (or Guard-Tarzans if you like)-Problem, then the ice will become very thin. So stunts like the red-nose take-off in Norway
will be happening more frequently, a completely new quality of accident is just around the corner.
It might have been a long time for this to surface, but once visible and causing accidents, it will also take a long time to get rid of all this insanity.
Funny thing is that it will not and cannot be stopped until the pain is almost unbearable, but for that there is still some way to go. Hopefully that point will be reached before aviation hits the working conditions of the merchant shipping.
If they were allowed, we would have that tomorrow.
