The company have little concern for crew health. No article in the media has mentioned anything other than gyms,beds,meals for passengers. PER-LHR they briefly looked at it.
The crews on the 787 thought they’d work less on 145 hours but hey presto they are doing 175 and that’s not including any factoring for night flying. Wonder how their health will be in 5-10 years.
But hey some tool TRE who flies one trip every few months at most says it’s ok on Qrewroom so that’s all the science you need.
The fatigue study undertaken does not look at the worst patterns flown and they are nothing close to what is being proposed.
PER-LHR may be close however it’s still short 4-5 hours in duty time. That’s only 33% of the study input too.
It would never be legal by any other global regulator.
Talk to the AIPA welfare representatives and see the increase in cancer and long term sickness rates for long haul pilots on the
330/747/380.
Hopefully AIPA consider culminative fatigue of doing these, and do a proper mission specific analysis, however I suspect they will sign anything due to fear of missing out. In fact I’m sure it’s all agreed upon and they are just going through the motions.
Sure they will say to the regulator pilots can go fatigued etc etc.
But Pilots don’t call fatigued and the company know this. In both the company’s eyes and now AIPAs you get the same credit for flying a day flight to HKG or PER as you will to fly a 23 hour duty all night.
Gotta love the science in that.