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I was only posting of my experience flying B744s out of LHR. My airline certainly didn't use expensive LAMEs to drive pushback trucks.
They were used more effectively fixing aeroplanes!

I thought all dnata pushbacks at Dubai were done by a engineer on headset and a rampie driving. At least it used to be. The head engineer who used to sign off handlers to do pushes was very strict when it came to training and signing off ramp crew to push aircraft.

P.S i do know ramp staff who have reported fuel leaks and damage to aircraft prior to pushing. Before anyone goes at me i see the argument for engineers on the headset.

James Reason, risks vs benefits, long as it's not you providing the data for the inquiry.

LeeJoyce....How about if we say it is perfectly acceptable for a 200 hour pay to fly cadet pilot to be in every jetliners R/H seat because the benefits far outway the risks, and thus makes it more affordable for any given airline to operate and therefore for everyone to fly?

GG that says way more about you than it does about any LAME from any country. If there was a competition between the worst QF LAME and the best from some other country the QF guy would miss the kick off because he would be sitting, head down, in his ute texting while the other guy started the push back. ( No disrespect to all the great QF LAMES out there, just the odd one or two take the p1ss)