British MEP Brian Simpson - who lost his seat in Thursday's election.
Ah! Sweet justice.
Just watch for Simpson getting on to the board of one of the Airline lobby groups in the near future.
Britain's transport secretary, Alistair Darling, favoured the change but was outflanked by five other countries, which successfully argued for a rethink at a meeting in Luxembourg.
The UK Secretary of State indicated that he was going to vote for the proposal as he had been assured by the CAA that it was safe and sound. BALPA returned with a counter to the effect that CAA had not consulted its expert body, the CAA OAC Fixed Wing Advisory Group (FWAG). So what value is the CAA's advice to the DfT?
We have self seeking politicians pandering to the airline lobby groups and wet ministers who take 'advice' from regulatory authorities who have been shown to completely disregard their own expert bodies as they are in effect funded by those same airlines who are lobbying for the new proposals.
When are the media going to get this one right and not just turn it into a pilots
"campaign against moves to increase their working hours"?