Fuel Loads: Ryanair set up a system to benchmark pilots against each other on their use of fuel. A twenty page table was produced with the pilots’ names, base, fuel burn, fuel target and percentage of use above or below the target.
The effect was like reading out school scores of children to pressurise them into competing with each other.
Pilots who were on precarious self–employed contracts felt the most pressure.
It is more a case of pressure being exerted on pilots through this sort of mechanism.
The 'app' on issue is the first step in Australia to a similar situation, where performance management invites pilots in to discuss their fuel use...
If the Chief Pilot makes a 'bonus' from pilot discretionary fuel orders reduction in projected fuel burn how is that not a conflict of interest?
Where are the regulators? Other than in the same pocket from which the DFO draws the bonus?