Originally Posted by
NickB
I guess it is 'lesser of two evils' reasoning on their part. A 'solution' to the problem would involve lobbying for more robust enforcement. This, however, would also affect full-service carriers, even if to a smaller extent than LCCs. So, between the Charybdis of a competitive advantage to the LCCs and the Scylla or more robust regulatory enforcement, full-service carriers tend to opt for the former.
I'm just wondering how far the captains of these boats have made any reasoned decision in navigating these difficult waters. (Are they relying upon the boat's lawyer to take the tiller-who's greater concern is the workload of paying off comp claims for a few crew members lost overboard en route-but may not be looking primarily at the ultimate safety of the vessel?)
From outward appearances its almost as if some of these boats are drifting- perhaps feeling secure in what appears to be a convoy of other apparently aimless vessels. (Only maybe the convoy is fog-bound-because they can't see the precise course other boats are taking). Is anybody signalling the boats owners of the potential bother-or are they presuming the owner is in the bookies and doesn't wish to be disturbed?
(On the face of it-some of the captains also appear to be distracted in bickering with the boat's crew on how the ship's stores should be rationed or how they they might lash boats together).
The reasoning process must be quite complex you would think-with all sorts of economic variables-interconnecting with each other. Airline management would also might wish to know what other airlines were doing as part of the data input into any modelling performed.
If there was any reasoning process being conducted-it must surely be a reasoning process that could not be displayed or discussed too openly.
(On this board we could publically attempt to discuss a "SWOT" analysis of the benefit of some of us going on a collective shop-lifting spree at Sainsbury this afternoon. We might even arrive at some tentative conclusions-but it wouldn't be very seemly-and we wouldn't wish to keep any notes in our pockets-just in case we were fingered by a store detective).
It possible also that-unlike Odysseus-the risks of not navigating a path are being stored up with possible accrued liability risks from not making an early and positive decision in pilotage.
My classics teachers gave up on me a long time ago-so I don't know if the Greeks had imagery for this particular dilemma.