But joking aside, a survey like this could be good news if there was scientific evidence of fatigue rather than anecodotal. It could once and for all knock on the head any notions that you can increase duty hours without causing increased fatigue.
It might shut up the head of Ryanair once and for all. Intuitively we all know that is a good idea.
You might be interested to know that a major study into pilot fatigue has just been completed in Australia. The study was a joint effort by a university (the name escapes me just now), the Civil Aviation Safety Authority and QANTAS who provided the test subjects and funding.
The preliminary reports have been prepared and according to the CASA person I heard this from, they show some massive problems with fatigue that go way beyond what anyone suspected.
However, this information cannot be publicly obtained yet as QANTAS is claiming intellectual copyright. It argues that as it provided the money for the study it would be giving its competition a free serve if the results were to be released. CASA and the university want to publish because of the ground-breaking results. The difference in opinion is yet to be sorted.