[dubbel]

> Even I, as a passenger sometimes look for the lowest price, so the pressure for cost cutting may come from us as well.

Of course you do, and that is not your fault. This is why we have independent regulation organizations like FAA or EASA, to not have matters of security solely in the hand of the free market.

[Tsubasachan]

Reminds me of a story of a budget airliner cutting costs by buying used parts and patching them up. Now nobody had actually tried to do something so nuts/genius before so there weren't any clear cut regulations. Eventually there was an accident and the FAA started to put screws under the microscope and interrogate maintenance crew.

Thankfully the aviation industry nowadays out of self interest cares about safety.

[amyjess]

The usual way I've heard aviation regulations described is that every single regulation is written in blood.

That is, every one of these regulations exist because somebody died as a direct result of that regulation not existing.