Thanks Schnowzer,
a very nice post you wrote, which, for me, really points out the situation and how it can be seen from the inside, most probably in most of the companies around the globe. To compare a company with a train is really one of the best equals I ever heard, clever point of view.
I do understand very well the situation for those who have been earlier "on the train" but I do also understand well those who are still standing at the train station to pick up "their" train.
Recently I have flown with guys who had to face 2 or 3 bankruptcies, and a lot of them with family, they for example had a very different pont of view for my ex company (major carrier) than I had at this time.
I also have respect for those collegues who have entered my "new train" earlier than I did, without suspecting all of the new passengers ,because they just are doing something that others did before. I plead for non guilty.
Returning to the topic,
-Fatigue Crews- I can prove you that major carriers around the world are operating more on the limits than they did before and JAR FTL are really weird
because they are made 50 years ago to cross the atlantic with a Super Conny and not for the demands of today.
If you ask the ex LTU @ EK guys or some collegues from Lufthansa you may get the same feedback. Only Air France and Alitalia maybe, are left over in Europe with strong unions and really good rosters but for i.e. Alitalia with an very uncertain future.
Remember, we are accepting all of this, with our firms under contracts.
During my entire career I have joined companies because they were in expansion, as we all joined probably (I guess on this we could have an accordance) which brings a lot of the described problems.
So we need more crew, EK is looking at this time for new crews..which means also initially more training, more work until the target goal is reached.That might least some more years and the problem of high crew workload will remain. Are we really expecting breaking news??
In my opinion we have to face an almost global situation which means a mass of non organized individuals like qualified pilots on one side (apart from lowbrainie Ahead Adump) and a very well organized industry which will keep us always at the redline, knowing very well the limits. So the individual has to choose his most favoured "individual package" if this is not satisfying at all, there is mybe only one thing left : to vote with your (our) feets.
4/legs/a/day
salute to all of the CX 49ers