@V2-OMG "Even so, I suspect airline management will now buggar these lengthy chit-chats between the flight and cabin crew - at least those in full view of the passengers because it may be perceived as a flagrant disregard of safety and responsibility. (Those milk runs just got more tedious). It is unfortunate that the actions of one rogue will now sully the job experience for thousands of apt pilots."
True - but the consequences of the actions of this one pilot are so dire, and so totally abhorrent, and so sad with so many people's lives brought to utter misery, that it will likely be taken very seriously by all airlines whose management will feel a strong need to increase the perceived safety for all passengers thinking of buying a ticket - without re-assurance to the flying public if confidence in the very act of taking a flight is reduced it would have significant financial implications for the running of airlines. So a response to shore up confidence seems very likely. The flying public used to admire and look up to the competence and reliability of commercial pilots - that confidence may have been severely shaken by the extensive news about this incident. How many percent reduction in ticket sales will bring an airline down financially? How many percent reduction in ticket sales will bring in a need for airlines to reduce the earnings of pilots?
In running a business of any kind the management has to take seriously the low probability but extremely high impact events that might only happen very occasionally.
Also it does sound like a more enlightened attitude amongst airline managers towards pilots coming clean about their health issues would be very helpful and more likely that pilots might admit to issues if the consequences were not a significant chance of loss of career!
Last edited by mcloaked; 27th Mar 2015 at 18:04.