[It's a passenger confidence building measure that seems not unreasonable to implement from a
PR point of view at the present time. Probably worthless in reality, even with guidance given to the cabin crew, how do they know if the remaining pilot is about to do something dodgy. It does seem a little silly having to call the L1 when you need to go peepee!
The reality is you can probably never stop a determined mad man or woman from doing anything, particularly if they are a psychopath without empathy or remorse. A jump seating pilot would definitely have a better clue of what to do.
Schnowzer, i agree 100% that this is nothing more than a
PR exercise. That said, I feel it is a mistake from a
PR point of view. They are trying to reassure passengers that they are doing something. But think carefully......what are they really saying?
Here is The Captain of our plane. Look at him closely........he /she is the person that you cannot trust to be alone in the flight deck!
That does nothing to inspire confidence. IMHO, airlines should rather stand up to the media frenzy by re-affirming their trust in their pilots. They should rather be focusing on the root cause of the issue i.e. How to deal with depression.
As a side bar, I note that psychiatric issues are excluded from our( and presumably most airlines) loss of licence insurance. I wonder why someone would want to hide it away
