I agree with the fact that we are all being pushed more and more. I wince a the though of some of the duty times my friends do. But just to bring two things out of this thread; what do ops do for safety? After working x amount of night shifts and overtime with my modest pay talks going sour I managed to plan a flight with the wrong aircraft. (Allthough there were other external factors that led to me doing this.) The crew didnt pick up the mistake, nor did the fueling guys, nor the engineers. Two hours into the flight a workmate did. Just luck that this flight was not a fuel critical sector and the aircraft I was working with had a higher burn than the one they were flying. What if it was the flight that had an engine shut down at etp because of a tired engineer missing something, the day that the met guys hadnt got the winds just right, the day that the guy in the notam office missed the notice that divert airport 'a' was closed. Its a team effort.
Pilots hate managers and vice versea, well everyone has problems with managment, but at the end of the day. If the were not running the company it wouldnt exist and we would be out of a job.
In saying all that, I made a choice some years ago not to fly for money. I get to go home every night, I dont live out of a suitcase. ****** that for a life, you guys deserve 99% of what your paid.
