Is Miss/Mrs Starmer not pregnant again? Does this not show a certain lack of intent to return to her job in any meaningful sense? Does that not perhaps suggest that this claim was more of a financial fishing expedition than a true discrimination case?
Surely time away from work at her relatively inexperienced stage has to be considered as well as just hours? If you are flying 67% of current hours but doing so consistently over 12 months of the year, that MUST be safer than flying at the standard rate and then taking 15 months out to have a baby and trying to then regain currency?
forgive my ignorance on these matters (being male) but at what stage in a pregnancy would the average mum-to-be cease flying and at what point after giving birth would the average new mother return to flying?
I dare to suggest that if there is a period of more than 6 months between those two dates then a serious amount of re-training would be required and a period of consistent and fairly intensive line flying required post re-training to attain the level of currency that would then allow a pilot to drop back to 50% PTW. 50% must work out at less than 350hours per year or under 30 hours per month and that, for a pilot who has been out of the job for a while having a baby, can not be enough.