Originally Posted by
lucille
Bluntly, lots of unemployed pilots = lots of pressure on employed pilots to perform to the company’s “satisfaction”.
This is the state of play across the world today.
Complete rubbish in Aus airlines. No one would blink an eye if this aircraft had diverted to Karratha or Newman after 2 approaches. It would have been refuelled and they would have tried again and if no luck gone back to Perth.
Pilots would not have even been questioned about it. The company would sort out the passengers on another flight later that day.