Firstly - I am pax and a non-smoker.
I have ignored this thread, as I presumed that it was about the problem of someone having an occasional smoke on the flight deck. Today, a friend who is giving up smoking after 30 years needed some help on the phone, due to the severe difficulties of giving up this drug. I noticed the thread was now very long and decided to read it. The lot.
To say that I was astounded that FR pilots were smoking on the flight deck is an understatement. I was astounded and considered it another reason not to travel with FR.
Plastic Bug
If two people in an enclosed enviroment can't get along and work out who smokes and who doesn't, that's too bad. We do not need a law to mandate behaviour.
Yes we do. If given free rein, humans do not always do the decent thing and cigarettes contain many drugs and the medics admit that they do not know all the affects that they have on the brain and body.
rananim
We've got some real ninnies in this profession you know. Didnt used to be like that and its a damn shame.
As some will have heard me comment before - it's the same in any profession/business these days. I have been in telecommunications for 25 years and cannot believe some of the silly little boys that we have running around with the word 'manager' on their chest. But that is the way of the world ... paying less money and watching the monkeys.
I am delighted to hear that FR are responding and their replies to FB were encouraging. The further news that pilots breaking the regulations about smoking have been dismissed, is the first postive thing I have heard about FR all year. Welcome news and congratulations to the company