Casper63 -
The Kingfisher airline has issued circular to use only Flaps 3 and Reverse Idle for all landings. These so called cost cutting measures would increase the risk and unfortunately the poor fare paying passengers are blissfully unaware. A tail touch or a runway overrun is highly possible in the near future especially in the coming monsoon season, which would more than wipe out all the savings the ops management is trying to accrue.
What a load of BS!!
Nothing wrong for a company to ask its crew to use perfectly normal configurations for landing if it saves money....
Loads of companies are using these "cost saving measurements", easyJet being one of them. Last year 44.5 million passengers traveled with easyJet on close to 1000 departures per day, still no overruns (not caused by flaps/reverse thrust config anyway).... You can't use flap 3 for "all landings", nothing strange with that though, which pilot would use use flex t/o "for all departures"??! Use it when the operational requirements and conditions allow it, there is a lot of money to be saved.
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