An excellent article here, very accurate.
The fact is airlines are squeezing every last thing they can out of their pilots, this is understandable as profits are king but a line has to be drawn somewhere.
But when airlines are making so much money - 1/2 a billion last year for a certain carrier and they still can't provide a bottle of water and a coffee or sandwich for their crews (even if delayed and crews have run out of provisions for the day) then that becomes completely unacceptable and there will hopefully be nowhere to hide for them with increasing scrutiny in the coming months.
It a sad state of affairs that it takes a tragedy for attention to be drawn to this and for carriers to be forced into accepting a duty of care for their staff but hopefully this could be a positive to come out of this truly awful event.
Alps tragedy exposes relentless pressures faced by commercial pilots | Comment is free | The Guardian