Why is it so difficult to reduce the airline pilot fatigue problem?
My thoughts:
A passenger seat in an airliner these days is just a commodity that is sold and bought.
The organisations that sell them (airlines) are very highly regulated in the way they provide this commodity and are hardly going to apply tighter regulation themselves. Why should they after all?
Why do the regulators not tighten the rules? Worldwide there are some 37million airliner flights per year and with the accident rate being as low as it is where is the argument that the airlines need tighter regulation?
Some of us have bodies that can tolerate the issues that cause fatigue better than others. Those that are really bothered by it should perhaps think of getting a flying job outside of the airlines.
But please don’t go down the ‘bosses are paid too much’ route – that is no argument. After all why not go and get yourself a job as a boss or as a footballer?