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Old 11th April 2003 | 14:57
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pointseveneight
 
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Not only the authorities...

Apart from legislators, air offices and companies, there's another factor in FDR that might spoil your day. How about this:

Swiss generally speaking is Crossair expanded by the remnanats of Swissair. The Swissair pilots forced through an own contract, both pilot forces are at loggerheads (quite literally), but both also had more or less the same FDR. In a nutshell, that's a max duty day of 12 hrs for the obvious safety reasons. The introduction of theses limitations was preeceded in the past by major fights against the management. Now, the company is shedding jobs and one pilots union, Aeropers (EX-Swissair), offers to syphon off the whole charter business and the associated jobs from the other pilot group (EX-Crossair) by offering to fly longer hours than the others on two crew. And the management is really delighted. This treason brings playing out the pilots against each other to new dimensions.
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