i just read the article about it. another reason to be scared of planes
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Well you get what you pay for. As harsh as this may sound, the passengers of flight QZ8501 paid as little as 100$ for their tickets. Most of us would be quite satisfied for that price. You save a lot of money while being given an adequate air service. Behind those champagne bottles lie another story.
Air Asia is a low budget airline. If they are not profiting from their cabins, then they are from their flight deck. Their pilots are ill trained and not unionized. Asian pilot qualifications are severely low in contrast to Western nations and are willing to hire anyone who reaches them as their is a high demand for them on that continent. The insurance companies know this as force airlines to pay airlines much more if two Asian pilots are in the cockpit. This explains why the second pilot was French.
As to the lack of unions, this forces pilots to make risky decisions endangering their own passenger. Upon analysis, trained pilots would never have attempted to fly around the storm with their amount of fuel. The safe decision would have been to turn back and land in the nearest airport. However, as they lack job security, the pilots make stupid decisions which would save the airline money else they may lose their jobs.
Either they toughen the laws as to be more pro-worker or passengers pay more for a safer airline.