No as explained by Pilot DAR.
Or think about runway incursion after being cleared to land.

Always found the 'one man push' procedure at Schiphol bizarre, single tug driver to do chocks, pins, pushback, etc etc...

Compared to the UK for example, where as a minimum you'll have a headset man, pushback driver, and a wing walker.

But hey ho, what do I know :}

Was at OSL not long ago and witnessed a single person tow the aircraft onto stand, chock it, put the bridge on, nip into the cockpit to do whatever brake riders do, come back down, and drive away in the tug. Impressive!

This industry operates at the edge of the safety margin entirely for profit or to satisfy the consumer by giving them ultra low cost flights. When will we realise aviation safety is absolutely compromised by a very unhealthy competition which now exists in this industry? We need to introduce a minimum cost per mile for flying with airlines competing not in terms of ticket prices but in terms of customer service and experience/comfort. The money should then be diverted to pay the staff better or simply hire more so the job can be done in a safer way. The regulators are asleep. Competition in aviation has reached a crisis point.

Which would of course explain why aviation has never been safer :ugh:
That being said, I'd consider the practice of making the tug driver responsible for everything rather daft. There should be at least one spotter (with one of those really noisy compressed air horns) to make sure they're clear.

And what will be that minimum cost per mile and when should be increased? It will be just a big cartel. and BTW how that will increase safety when the past few years have been the safest?
Furthermore passengers are already charged a fixed costs to use airports and their facilities.

Really LOUD I'm reversing bleepers needed, or do tug drivers have really QUIET ear defenders?

Fair enough, as a pax, I would happily pay $0.25 for every ticket, if doing so greatly reduced the chance that I would have to be disembarked, and delayed, waiting for a replacement plane, once during my passenger career. Whoever pays to repair those two planes is going to pass that cost along to me anyway. I'd rather pay extra wing walkers, than sheet metal repair technicians! Costs can be cut too much.

I was under the impression that the tug drivers and wing walkers are paid by the airline, not the airport - basically that those airport fees are used for things like airport infrastructure.
Is it different on the other side of the pond?

my understanding is that depends on airport, airlines agreement, some airports in SEA have a monopoly on the service...
but indeed you are right not all are the same

you already paying for that, and is a fix cost per seat/flight, not based on miles travelled. Pushing a plane for a 1 hour flight or 12 hour flight cost the same

I have no idea about Schiphol, but the European airport which handles my client's airplanes has airport employees, not airline staff, ground handle the planes. I know this, because we've had two "incidents". I recently discussed with the airport manager allowing us to move our own planes, as long as no one else's plane is around, and that seems likely, though a stretch of their rules. It will be less costly for them, after the rather expensive repairs which have been incurred by the airport. When we move the airplanes, we always have wingwalkers, and a following person. A few times, the airport staff have moved our planes without our assistance, and twice it did not work out so well.

Same at Schiphol.
KLM has it's own personnel, but there are 2 or 3 other handling companies.

Wing walkers are optional, only certain airlines employ them.
The headset man (other genders are available) and driver are there, but airlines are starting to trial and use remote controlled Mototoks, which only require one person to operate.

actually there is a low cost solution to all these low speed taxying bumps at airports, which crop up on pprune regularly.

The AI in driverless cars is superb at spatial awareness and anticipation. I can't imagine Google would break a sweat turning some of their technology into having the CCTV that's watching aprons and taxiways into an alert system for an imminent collision. Any human watching the video had at least 5 seconds notice that a crunch was going to happen. Ditto AI. Then it would just need a link to ground radio to say something like "all ground aircraft stop now-collision imminent" and sorted for very few pennies.

G