Wow, there are now 3 threads on page 1 along these lines. I'm not sure if the use of the 'fatigue' weapon is the most likely to succeed. It is too subjective, perhaps.
If the MP & MEP route is not proving successful, there might be another.
Recently, and I can't remember his name or the case in question, but the chairman of the famous 'Health & Safety at work Executive' was getting hot under the collar about the consequences of people being overworked and overstressed in certain industiries. I think teachers and health workers were among them. He was going into action! He even specualted on the cost to the country of the loss in productive days due to sickness. (I wonder what the total % sick leave is in the airline world; flight crews not office staff/)
Surely we can get more from the HSE than being made to look like 2 legged canaries every time we go to work.
Once again, though, I have no faith in BALPA, the ECA (if it still exists) or any other of the pilot associations. There were decrees made by the EU commission more than 10 years ago, that public transport had to introduce compensation measures for its employees until the could, very shortly, impliment improvements in working conditions similar to those enjoyed by ground personel in other industries. This edict has been totally ignored and the pilot bodies, and authorities, have done sweet fanny adam about it. Get a copy of that EU commission edict and shove it under the correct noses. They will soon be out of joint and maybe something will happen.
However, with all the blah blah that has been on here in the past 2 years, Times reporters and all, how come it still not yet in the public demain? Panorama would love it. When an a/c crashes Discovery channel does a great job of recreating it. It's pure entertainment, intreaguing and no doubt somewhere a little controversial. Often it shows someone somewhere, in authority, not having done their job quiet right. The last was the Alaska Airlines MD8X??? where maintenance procedures were at fault. There was a finger to point and a target.
Surely, a good investigative reporter could make a fine program into the flight crew lifestyle problem. If nothing else it would explode the myth of overpaid underworked prema donnas lying on sun kissed beaches interupting their leisure time with occaisional bouts of work; which is any case is hours of boredom started and finsihed with seconds of terror.
Isn't it?