Data Protection Act
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Speaking personally, I would have loved to have been able to quote the Data Protection Act, in my past life and many years ago, as a crewing bod.
Not for reasons of incompetence but because crewing bods get overwhelmed, and fed up with, the question 'who am I flying with?'.
Imagine the scenrio, you're calling out a widebody crew, perhaps 14 crew, off standby, to be at the airport ASAP, to replace a crew that has gone out of hours, there are hundreds of delayed passengers milling around the terminals, at this end and the other end, you've got commercial people breathing down your neck and you're going through the same routine and up to 14 sodding times, 'isn't there anybody else and who are the rest of my crew?'
THis problem is moreso from the back end rather than the front end of the aeroplane but what should be a 15 minute job, to call 14 crew, can stretch into an hour or more and the crew were required to report within that hour or more.
It would have been wonderful, and so time saving, to quote the DPA!
Not for reasons of incompetence but because crewing bods get overwhelmed, and fed up with, the question 'who am I flying with?'.
Imagine the scenrio, you're calling out a widebody crew, perhaps 14 crew, off standby, to be at the airport ASAP, to replace a crew that has gone out of hours, there are hundreds of delayed passengers milling around the terminals, at this end and the other end, you've got commercial people breathing down your neck and you're going through the same routine and up to 14 sodding times, 'isn't there anybody else and who are the rest of my crew?'
THis problem is moreso from the back end rather than the front end of the aeroplane but what should be a 15 minute job, to call 14 crew, can stretch into an hour or more and the crew were required to report within that hour or more.
It would have been wonderful, and so time saving, to quote the DPA!
