Thank you Guys for your replies
From what I understand (being very recently crew) all crew have to feel fully fit to operate the duty + discretion and
BOAC has just confirmed that.
I also thourght (maybe wrong) fatigue had to be declared within 2 hours and after a rest period to crewing.....I don't know if this was done.
From what I understand on this particular flight the inability to operate discretion was declared
prior to departure from the UK by the Captain who subsequently filed a fatigue report himself and made this option available to the crew.
All of the senior cabin crew filed fatigue reports. The rest of the CC on this flight were young inexperienced seasonal temps.
I've seen the company response to this issue issued by a CC manager on company headed notepaper. Apparently nobody was actually "fatigued" only
"seriously tired" on this flight on the latter stages of the inbound sector.
I know what it is like, as CC, to be tired at the end of a long duty period and this is compounded if crew are on day 5/6/7/ of their roster. If I'm tired my people skills are compromised with both pax and crew.
I've been "seriously tired" on two occasions I can recall in all the years I've been flying. On one occasion I nearly blew a slide and on the other I put the oven on with paper attached to the inside/outside of the door and when I smelt burning............
On both occasions I was maxed out on my roster but still within CAA/company parameters. None of this was life threatening however.
If a pilot is considered
"seriously tired" on approach to landing how does this affect them?