Originally Posted by
eaglefly
Years ago, ALPA jumped on their bandwagon with the concept of "One level of safety" which sounded good, but alas, the forces mentioned above required too much effort and MONEY on their part to REALLY make a difference.
Sadly, the only REAL chance for change will come from the one entity that can force it....................the travelling public (customers). Until enogh body parts are produced to scare them away from perceived areas of unsafety, profit will rule and those that share in it will continue to benefit at others expense...................primarily ours.
Sounds to me like that's what he's proposing: a PR campaign to educate the traveling public on how their safety is being compromised in the pursuit of the almighty dollar. When the masses know what an RJ is and who flies it and how, and they begin to show a strong dislike of them (ie booking away from them even when the ticket costs more), that's when they'll go away and you'll see jobs go back to mainline. Right now it's popular to say that passengers only care about money and will book a ticket on any airline that offers it for $5 less...but that's because they (wrongly, imho) assume there is one level of safety.