NigelOnDraft said:
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Was me. With >500 Capts and >500 FOs on the fleet, and doing, say 100 "trips" a year (trip varies from 1 to 5 days), you might see the issue
Wondering if any airline ever came up with the idea of forming small teams within their crew pools who fly regularly together. Human beings work best in groups of up to 30 people - part of our evolutionary heritage.
Not knowing your colleagues in the cockpit may be seen as advantageous or at least convenient by the airlines, but I don't think it leads to a high level of well-being among the crews. You'll probably find that your conversations with your colleagues don't go much beyond the basic introductions, as does your familiarity with each other.
Nice idea, and has always been a debate with airlines not doing "constituted crews", and the military tending to.
Leave aside the technical merits, would prove unworkable with any sort of bidding system e.g. our Bidline
Mix in Part Time options, Union work, differing leave etc. and it would not work IMO. Some of our Cabin Crew contracts try it from time to time - not for safety but "customer service", but I think it tends to fail for the same rostering reasons?
Personally, I do not see it as an issue - we are all trained to the same SOPs, and if anything, at the end of a long tour, things might "relax" a little more than the author of the SOPs intended
