https://www.smh.com.au/business/comp...27-p544y5.html
From the article:-
”This is a clear breach of the regulator's legal and safety responsibilities, according to advice from the International Civil Aviation Organisation, which states that pilots must be involved at all stages of an FRMS implementation," Mr Sedgwick said.
I would have thought that stretching pilot duty periods to lengths that we have never seen before should involve some input from pilots but apparently CASA doesn’t think so!
CASA spokesman Peter Gibson said the regulator responded to AIPA's concerns and considered that it needed only to consult with the union when making decisions that had "broad aviation industry application", and not in decisions in "relation to one individual operator and its personnel".
Just another example of CASA being “owned” by the major airlines. They really should remove the “S” from their name and go back to being the CAA.