Originally Posted by
Y0SSARIAN
That is not going to happen. In my experience only 5-10% of a given population will have the guts to stand up and do something about a problem themselves. The main reasons that pilots often won't call fatigued for these flights are:
a) they fear being labeled a 'trouble maker' thus affecting their career
b) they are tight-arses and don't want to lose the overtime
This is why you are also 50% wrong.
Then 90-95% of your crew are gutless whimps.
I'm not 50% correct on that.
While the regulator and the company are equally duplicitous in your scandalous crewing, take a stab at who'll wear 100% of the blame should an incident happen. CASA will say the pilots were undoubtedly fatigued, although they failed to stand them selves down. JQ will say we have a robust culture of fatigue management in place, or some other obfuscating alternative to shoot the blame right to the pilots involved. Summarily dismissed under Just Culture.
You guys are playing Russian Roullete with your careers and your passengers lives.