“a couple of planes a week” ? Each airline? Or for all the airlines there. If the payout is six figures per person in a plane crash, and a couple of million for the plane, you’re not going to make that up in a couple of days.
I meant for all the airlines, combined. I'm not sure each airline could afford to lose two a week. But remember, Europe is not the US with respect to tort laws. Settlements here far exceed death settlements there. From the stories I've read, it appears that the airlines were losing a combined $400 million(US) each day. That's a big number