Not even through a basic?
The fuel letters go out on a monthly basis to the bottom percent. Fuel leagues are published for all to see.
Pressure to work is only apparent in winter months when weather disruptions are a real probability combined with a roster that only had you doing 10-30 hours.
What these programmes try to emphasise is true, the fuel policy on paper is safe and legal and that can't be argued with but in RYR it's the bs with intimidation, bullying and excessive amounts of pressure which are more difficult to capture and document. Anyone remember the Skavsta incident when a FR skipper lost his son and feared for his job if he called in sick? Resulted in a very unstable approach and landing with flaps 10 if I remember correctly with all the epgws warnings going off or The FO who committed suicide which RYR played a part in? The sacking of a colleague for mentioning a union, under safety grounds.... These are some public cases that received some awareness but there's a huge amount that don't.
We received a memo a few weeks ago about which delay code we should use for oversized cabin bags being offloaded for the hold, very common practise this time of the year. Subsequently we take a 5-10 minute delay each time, no manoeuvring room on a 25min turnaround. Our memo basically states to blame the cabin crew. We already know any delay mentioned that's the cabins fault, they go through the kangaroo disciplinary procedures. it leads to colleagues begging for these delay codes not to appear. This to me is more undue pressure. They know it will prevent delays being written down for this very reason. This is just one additional stress attached to a simple procedure that results in begging from the cabin if you use it. There are many more like them. Make no mistake about it, you will get called and spoken to like a child, each time creates a pressure to avoid the bs.
Last edited by McBruce; 5th Jan 2013 at 11:58.