Who's head is in the sand here? The rules of this petition have deliberately been set in order to manipulate the least amount of signatures.
I have no doubt about the good intentions of this initiative, but ironically enough this (IMHO flawed) petition will only
legitimize the regulator's and airline CEO's point of view that: 'see, it's no problem to push through these new FTL's because very few pilots care and see it as a problem.'
As I questioned before, there must be thousands more UK certified pilots out there, so why are
only those who work for a UK airline and/or a UK residence allowed to sign this petition? What about thousands of Brits or UK license holder working for EK/CX/EY/KA/FR etc. who no longer have a UK residence?
Again, as a concerned UK license holder I would love to participate in this petition but under the current rules I, and I suspect many many others, are excluded...
Hip hip hurray for the bureaucrats and airline CEO bonuses!