Originally Posted by
A320 Glider
I hope you aren't a skipper.
A long haul captain is a captain from the moment you check in at home base to the moment you check out at home base.
Being in the military, you should never leave your crew behind.
Can Norse guarantee they'll help their crew return home from India when their company goes bankrupt?
To a point… Your crew are also grown adults capable of making decisions. They’ve got credit cards, and can hopefully work Expedia or Google flights.
You mention the military, but this
is not the military, and this example doesn’t seem like they were left in a war zone. More likely an air conditioned airport with WiFi, hire cars and restaurants.
Get back to the crew park next week and one of your crew have a puncture and need breakdown. Are you going to wait 3 hours until they arrive ‘just in case’? If you answer yes have a think, would you really?
Now, common decency would hopefully make you help, of course it would. But this idea that as a captain you are a descendant of the chivalric knights duty bound to uphold your honour and that of the hat you wear is all a little bit contrived. You’re a worker bee for an airline.