Marketing sells the product, Commercial "planning" decides what equipment goes where and when, and seem to change their mind more often than their knickers, I suppose they also have pressures to make the airline as efficient as possible, so maybe last minute changes are a necessity to them as well...it's easy to spread blame all around at any company, I'm just a bit loathe to do do this, as I haven't "walked a mile" in any of their shoes!!
Yah the rostering issues are frustrating, and as usual, we wind up on the recieving end of it all...if you have something that is illegal, then refuse it, I have, some of the day to day crew controllers try to pull stunts, and one must simply refuse, just as we do when we are not happy with a technical issue the engineers or MCC try to urge us to do...it's the same game at most airlines...they have their job, the final responsibility always rests with us doesn't it...
