Twiggs
I was watching with interest your question to RW
I understand fully that you only believe it to be a hard day at the office because that’s where you are.
Not only that however but by your own admission you have not done a shuttle but proclaim them to be OK and safe…and you wonder why anyone doubts your stories
There are a number of problems here and we have talked about most of them before however this latest development by the tech crew puts a new slant on things.
The first is that because of the time difference between Syd and LA most crew do not indeed get much sleep before departure to JFK.This has been successfully argued by Tech crew as well.
The main point however is that our surrender artists in the FAAA encouraged crew to vote YES to doing a shuttle because they could not argue a case for retaining the slip.
The tech crew however, not only retained the slip but also have just proved that slipping for 24 hours is not enough!!!!!!!!!!!!
If the tech crew cannot achieve adequate rest during a 24-hour slip I think it would be fairly safe to say that we could argue that not having a slip is even more arduous.
By adding an additional crew member on the flight for tech crew the company has admitted that there is an issue with fatigue. If it were not then the company would not be putting another pilot on board…
AIPA sits down and fights for their members but not the FAAA.All we get from them is MUFFIN MORNINGS and a story as to how hard the company has it….
Maybe we should all join AIPA, as they seem to look after their members