Originally Posted by
ShotOne
All that represents an ideal rather than reality! Sadly, in much of the aviation world, dispatcher has become a min-wage zero-hour contract profession
In much of the aviation world, a "dispatcher" is not a position licensed or mandated by the Civil Aviation authorities nor is a certain level of demonstrated knowledge and expertise pertaining to the planning, performance, and legality of releasing flights demanded. There is also no legal joint authority/responsibility with a PIC in order to release a flight or a broad, mandated-by-the-Authorities structure or resources in place to support them in this job. Result; in much of the aviation world an aircraft dispatcher isn't even seen as a profession, let alone a career. As such, it's valued accordingly (low) and not just by the Company that pays them.
Judging by many responses even here by their aviation peers, there is also a large segment of FIGJAM Skygod-types who are quite happy with that low-value/low-proficiency "dispatcher" arrangement and would probably rather not have trained, knowledgeable and proficient Dispatchers certified to a certain standard involved at all since blowharding "The Captain is always right!" doesn't require any collaboration or resolution. I can't even imagine the level of grumbling if the same Authorities who issued them their Pilot Certificates also required a Certificated Dispatcher to ride along on Company cockpit jumpseats a certain number of hours per year, let alone the cacophony of protest if they had to co-sign a release in order to be legal. It would challenge their whole image about themselves.