Just wondering how many calls a crewing department can make before they breach Human Rights Article 8, which is a qualified right to "respect for private and family life".
The intereference must be:-
(a) Lawful
(b) Must serve a legitimate purpose
(c) Be necessary in a democratic society
(d) must not be discriminatory
Multiple roster changes degrade the family life and a pilot subjected to them on a regular basis, whilst his colleagues enjoy a stable roster, could be descriminatory.
I'm talking here of big changes, local flying being changed into nightstops and then back again, lates to earlies and vice versa, attempts to call a standby out for a nightstop prior to a day off.
Failure to be able to meet one's commitments as a parent, missing parents' evenings, school plays etc etc, in my book are a denial of Human Rights.
I appreciate that changes occur due to weather, unserviceability, aircraft changes etc etc but perhaps it may be time just to ask why you are being changed and is it necessary. Twenty-one roster changes in four days is not uncommon in one low cost airline.
You have Rights!
Food for thought ladies and gentlemen.
Safe flying
MP
