MJBD!!
Apparently that is no the case, heard the same rumour yesterday myself from an apparently good source so checked anyway and one of the Base Captains knows nothing about it.
However, the potential loss of crew food is certainly not helping the low morale at easyJet, and it reaalluy is a Flight Safety Issue. Go have been able to do without it, because they work shorter days than we do, and food is available from the bar at discounted prices. Naturally, one would expect their bars to be topped up more often than ours, which run out at about mid morning every day thus infuriating the passengers that get told they can buy something on board, only to find it has been sold out!
Anyway, it will be interesting to see what alternatives are suggested by the management, considering that so many of our days start with a 3.30 or 4.00 am out of bed, when the last thing that you want to be doing is rattle around the kitchen organising breakfast.
A couple of suggestions however;
Open the easyJet canteen at easyland on a 24 hours a day basis, so that the crews can stroll in when ever they like to get well fed, like the office workers do. Or perhaps they can send catering out to the aircraft at Madrid, Malaga and Palma, like the Duty Free vans. Or, even better, when we get hungry on a turn around, we stop, get off and disappear for an hour to find a cafe somewhere and get back to the aircraft within the hour (or two) once we have had our nutritious lunch!
A reminder to the management, so well versed in these matters:
Loss of concentration, fatigue, short term memory loss, impaired judgement, sloppy flying and decreased visual perception, increased reaction time, and being able to be easily distracted are only some of the symptoms of fatigued pilots; is that what you want to fly your new A319's??
