NO crew looks through them predeparture to check if the arrival pages are there. We assume an airline could at least get that right!!
Rightly so; Not. My. Job.
There is some employee somewhere in CXcity that collects a salary and full benefits for this. Yet another failing task to pawn off on the only employee group in this sinking ship that gets things done. If we are meant to check charts are correct in the binders, well then you could say we need to check every possible alternate is on board as well.
Better start making all flights report 2hrs ahead of time to complete this task.
Well done to this crew for turning around. I hope they did it 10 minutes from top of drop. Only thing better would have been if they diverted into some bumblefack airport without support and then pulled the pin due to hours.
Its the only language they understand. When some little empire, useless outdated department in the big red or green circus tent drops the ball, the last thing you should do is compensate for them and pick it up. Let it fail in spectacular fashion, its the only thing that gets enough attention to actually fix things. Everything else gets promptly swept under the rug by the people that are now scrambling to keep their useless jobs.