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Old 11th Nov 2019, 06:14
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C441
 
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Why not push for more family friendly rostering, better access to child care for pilots, better support and integration for families?
This will benefit fathers as well. Everyone has families, even single male pilots without kids.
This is available already. It’s called a “Carer’s Line”. The unfortunate side effect of this is the non-carers line holders do a lot of the less palatable trips have more frequent reserve periods and generally worse rosters as a result.

Don’t get me wrong. There are pilots of all sexes who genuinely need a carer’s line but the flow-on effects for other (particularly the junior) pilots is a poorer lifestyle overall. They too have families and loved ones but by default spend more weekends away and have more disrupted rosters as a result of Carer’s lines.
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