Originally Posted by
733driver
It's actually quite easy to deny that MOL speaks facts. How about this quote: "I would challenge any pilot to explain how this is either a difficult job, or how it is they are overworked or how anybody who by law cannot fly more than 18 hours a week could possibly be suffering from fatigue"
MOL doesn't straight out lie, he just generalizes (as the general he is) and tells his version of a simplified truth. He' ll go to a new route press conference and tell everybody it just takes 45 minutes to travel from the airport to the city even tough it had just taken him 1 hour and 30 minutes. But it could probably be done in 45 at 3 in the morning in a fast car.
Same with pilots hours. He'll fly from DUB to STN and see it took 45 minutes from wheels up to wheels down. Do a quick head calculation of 2 return flights a day per shift and 5 days and that is the number he blurts out at the next meeting. Or in the legal 18 hours a week case probably 900 divided by 52.