@ scott diamond
couldn't agree more and truely embarrasing if you care to look up which company I'm flying for.
However untill management has the guts to confess to a change in policy there's not much to be expected. Probably not going to take place until some major shuffling of chairs up there.
Until then I have to help myself, as it's my ar$e sitting in a cockpit full of smoke or trying to save some seriously sick pax in the back and clueless about the facílities at the nearest airports.
In a perfect world the Authorities could be expected to take control of those issues, but not here and not theese days.
Sorry but true,
MAX