QAR ASR
Or should I say "Meat Head"?
Imagine this fictionary scenario:
After min rest in a crap hotel where sleep was interrupted, talked into a forth early roster (which means a report of BEFORE 0559 Local time which usually means waking up at 0400), an incident ocurrs on the flight and the Captain appears in court. The first question from the prosecution will be "Captain, why were you working outside the rules of the agreement between your Union and the Company, rules which are there to protect you from such instances as the fatigue of four early rostered duties?"
Where does the Captain stand? Nowhere...
If it is not written somewhere that you can only do 3 early duties in a row, then it is possible to be reostered it every working day for a month, and the Ba@#$%ds will F%^&ingwell do it too!
ANYONE who has had to do early duties (and it is much worse from LHR) knows that it is hard, and when it is mixed in with lates at the end of a week , even worse.
If you had not notices, the whole world is moving gently towards more "fluffy" working conditions and more leisure time APART from the airline industry.
IF WE DO NOT UNITE AND STAND UP FOR OURSELVES NOW, WE WILL LOSE GROUND AT AN ALARMING RATE AND END UP AS MANUAL WORKERS. DID YOU BUST YOUR ASS TO GET AN ATPL TO BE TREATED IN THIS WAY? I SURE AS f@#k DID NOT.