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As has been said before ATC and truck driver are one man band. If you need a break ask your colleague to look after shop for you, isn't that called CRM?
getting up at 0330 every day for 6 days doing four sector days, and another couple of weeks doing long haul bullets
Um - not sure too many charter airlines do 4 sector days, so which airline is left that does mixed short haul and long haul......
As i've said before hadn't EU FTL come in I would hav bet there would be no other medium sized AOC in the UK. You also fail to highlight that for example under EASA FTL the FDP for example in the afternoon is less. You also fail to mention that most medium / large sized UK AOC have Union agreements and are heavily investing in FRMS.
Yes, it is all hard work these days, if you dont like it go work for the CAA as an IOA