Our responsibilities are to ourselves, primarily; to our fellow crew, secondarily; and lastly to the traveling public.
Not for me. I feel my primary responsibility is to the passengers, secondarily to my wife and children , and lastly to my fellow crew. Not that it matters much as long as we are both able to make tough calls to keep people safe when the pressure comes on.
I am interested to know if we actually do fly worse shift patterns now days compared to say the 60's 70's and 80's.
Does anyone know?
Personally I am flirting with having to make a fatigued call at some stage unless things become more 'gentalmanly '.