EK Fatigue Survey
Fatigue Survey
Divisional Vice President of Flight Operations et al:
Your plan to gather data on fatigue in Emirates Airlines’ “Special Long Range Operations” is a waste of time.
You know, as do all the members of the Emirates Fatigue Risk Management System Steering Committee (one of whom is the force behind some compelling research and conclusions in several well accepted aviation related publications) that the issue is a complex one.
You also know:
The data has already been compiled.
Several reputed organizations, including RAES and NASA Ames Research Center, (who carried out a 10 year long study!) have all the data needed for decisive mitigation of fatigue despite its complexity.
You have myriad reports, admittedly anecdotal, from the Emirates ASR system.
Your latest survey is yet another anecdotal, subjective survey with no empirical basis. It is therefore doomed to failure, since you already ignore the ASRs. You are just dithering around like a bunch of ninnies.
You all know that senior management in the company refuse to heed any advice in their commercailly expedient profit driven frenzy.
In effect, the airlines’ customers run the airline. They are the ones who decide where, when, how often, and how much it is going to cost. You all just sit around responding to those factors, (market forces), and ignore the employees, especially the pilots.
Wake up and smell the coffee and stop pretending to give a sh-t about what the pilots in this company say. Go f--k yourselves with your fatigue survey and your “kiss my a-s” attitude towards this company’s operators.
Your insincerity is galling.