all pilots should sign a strong petition to the CEO stating they have no confidence in their leadership and demand they go.
That would require the 0.01% conducting a 'quiet behind the scenes' sounding out of the other 99.9% unreliable sheep. You'd have to have known support before raising head above parapet. If not it risks being shot off at the next check ride.
An indication of the attitude of XAA's & management is this: in short-haul european operations there is now an approved procedure for strategic 'controlled rest' in the cockpit. The procedure is written in Ops manuals and the conditions and methods are specific. Now ask yourself; what is going on in short-haul operations such that is thought necessary to use controlled rest in the work place so that the crew is up to par and awake for the subsequent approach & landing?
Over 25 years ago the EU bought in the workers' directive. This included regulations for workers to take work breaks at regular intervals and other features e.g. meal breaks both from their place of work. Neil Kinnock was the EU transport commissioner and he recognised that public transport vehicles did not offer such opportunities. Trains, buses, coaches, aeroplanes. It was stipulated that until such opportunities were possible the companies had to introduce compensatory measures, otherwise public transport workers would be disadvantaged and treated unfavourably compared to the general workforce.
Guess what: it never happened and aviation FTL's became worse than during that period 25 years ago. And what did the unions do to insist on those compensatory measures? Nothing.
So here we have it; short-haul routes that are 5.30hours in each direction and controlled rest in the seat.
A travesty or what? And just where did the pressure come from not only to ignore the introduction of compensatory measures, but also the lengthening of FTL's? Answers on a postcard to.............