I would opine the problem is much more broad in nature. All these events are merely symptoms of the problem. In short, the airline business model is broke - plain and simple. The companies simply cannot make money on a long-term sustained basis unless of course you are a fuel-hedge brokering airline and that is more of a credit to fuel hedging not the airline model. As a result airline management (notice I didn't write leadership) does everything it can to bust into labor which in many cases ultimately includes safety whether they want to admit it or not. Meanwhile, same management has no problem robbing the corporate coffers to ingratiate themselves and their grandchildren. So what is the solution? Re-regulate the airlines. They are nothing more than a utility anyway with one exception -- utilities make money.