Mungo Man
.....because CAP371 only provides guidance for an AOC applicant in the UK to construct an FTL scheme. The tailored FTL scheme is then presented to the CAA for review and eventual authorisation for incorporation in to the AOC holder's documents.
If there are missing elements of CAP371 either their omission is deemed acceptable by the CAA or there has been an oversight.
Depending on which or how many members of the crew are reporting later than scheduled, it is sometimes achievable to depart on schedule safely. Only the commander on the day will be able to judge whether this can be accomplished or not by such methods as changing the order of briefing / checking / set-up, partial boarding in the event of missing members of cabin crew etc. No one situation is the same.
I recall one gentleman captain colleague who took great pride on exercising a personal crusade against his airline by delaying the departure of the flight by the equivalent amount of time one crew member out of six was asked to delay her report to satisfy rest from the day before. The crew member arrived after passenger boarding, was briefed by her senior and the Captain in the flight deck and sat at her crew station. The Captain then delayed engine start by a further twenty minutes, despite all crew members having completed their duties, because "this company needs to learn.....etc."
