Just another way to pee off all the pilots.
Now Ed starts to cry safety when all it does is pee off pilots in top bid who commute home once every few months. Nice one Ed
You plonker, do us all a favour, leave now!!!
CREW PLANNING – REVISED BID ASSIGNMENT STRATEGY
One of Emirates strengths in the areas of operational flight safety has always been that our flight crews have had a greater depth of experience than our competitors across the range of destinations and regions to which the airline operates. With many of our destinations encompassing a greater level of challenging operational environments than some of our competitors, this is a critical competency to maintain. This policy has allowed us to ensure a superior level of knowledge and understanding with regard to the operating environment as well as ensure adequate preparation for command by First Officers. Equally, it provides improved operational decision-making by Commanders who are thereby intimately familiar with the intricacies of the individual airports and their surroundings. The FOM and OM-D has captured this desire by ensuring that one of the requirements for command eligibility is that the candidate demonstrates a wide variety of route experience during the initial screening for command selection. Additionally, during initial training, each pilot is exposed to a number of varied regions and airports to ensure that the pilot is aware of the challenges of operating into those regions. It is expected that he will continue to impose upon himself the discipline to ensure that level of experience is maintained.
Over the last several months, Flight Ops has been tracking a disturbing trend by a growing number of pilots to continuously bid to the same destination each week and often month after month. The result of that type of bidding is a natural reduction in the overall knowledge of our operating theatre which is a core competency of our pilot group and a as a consequence, a potential reduction to safety margins.
Beginning with the November 2009 bid month, Crew Planning will be implementing a revision in bid assignment strategy. The system will be programmed to award a maximum of two flights to the same airport in any bid period. Due to the small number of destinations presently served, the A380 will be added to this restriction at a later date.
Please contact your respective Fleet Manager with any questions.
Captain Edward Davidson
Senior Vice President Fleet
Flight Operations/Ops Control/Others - Standard List
Snr. Vice-President Safety & Standards, Emirates.