SKYW CRJ2 in ATL?

[Jack-O-Lantern]

I just love reading posts from all those here that talk about spending time at home with a family, hating hotels, wanting to be home every night, miserable with their odd schedules..etc. etc.

Did you not research this sh!t?? Are you completely flipping clueless?? Did you really think you would be home every night as an airline crewmember?? Did you think you wouldn't be staying in hotels? Don't you choose to live somewhere other than you work?? Jesus J. Mother Flocking Gonzalez. Idiots.

"I'm gone from home all the time" waaaaaaahhhh
"I hate staying in these hotels" waaaaaaahhhhhh
"Why do I have to work on Saturdays?" waaaah wahhhhhhhhh waaaaah
"This commute sucks, I hate coming to work." waaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh

waaaahaahhhhhhh waaaaaahhhhhhhhh waaaahhahhhhhhhhahhahahhh

Stick a pacifier in your mouth. Panty waste.


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HEll YEA! Best post I've seen on FI in a very long time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[JoeMerchant]

You simply can't get any more hypocritical than that. Let's face some facts here, Joe. You clearly don't give a d@mn about fatigue related safety issues. What you are concerned about is your schedule and your quality of life that you have attained by virtue of your seniority. You don't want the rules to change at all because you are, probably correctly, concerned that your quality of life or earnings will take a hit.

Frankly, TFB.

You have the schedule that you have because the company builds some lines that allow for adequate rest, these would be the lines that you are senior enough to hold, and builds other lines that do not allow for adequate rest, which the rest of us get. Stated another way, you enjoy the opportunity to hold a schedule that works for you at the cost of your coworkers inability to hold a schedule that realistically addresses fatigue issues.

Fatige is a serious threat to the safety of airline transportation. This has been shown multiple time well prior to the tragic Colgan accident. To attempt to stonewall meaningful progress on this clear and present threat to the safety of airline operations becasue of perceived decreases to your personal quality of life or earnings is shameful and incredibly selfish.

TFB? I guess you don't care about anyone elses perspective on this....

Allow me to correct you on some of your ASSumptions.

1. I do care about being safe...I want to go home at the end of the day as much as the next guy...I don't have a death wish.

2. I have used the "fatigue" call when I felt it was appropriate. I never heard another word about it.

3. You said:

"You have the schedule that you have because the company builds some lines that allow for adequate rest"

I prefer to bid the ones that have bare bones rest with long days...That allows for more days off. There are much easier 4 day trips that I often swap out of for brutal 3 day trips. You would be wrong in this ASSumption.

4. "prior to the Colgan accident" Once again, scheduled rest and duty day played NO factor in this accident...They had plenty of scheduled rest. Inexperience and pilot error were the primary causes of this accident and the PNCL accident....If you really want to improve safety, you need to increase the requirements to sit in the cockpit of a Part 121 air carrier.

5. If safety is the primary motivator here, then why don't we limit commuters who come in the day of flying, or fly red eyes to work. How about those who sleep in the crew lounge chairs? How about Naps? How about all night flying? Let's be consistent if safety is our PRIMARY motivator...I suspect those things wouldn't be popular...


Glen, here is a link to the CAA rest rules and duty time rules....There is chart that shows the sliding scale of duty day limits based on number of legs...Those of us who do primarily short leg regional flying will take the biggest hit...The 50 seater is going to get harder than the 70 seater because of the shorter legs we do. 10-11 hour duty days will decimate the productivity of our days.
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/CAP371.PDF

 

[Freebrd]

I am a commuter...?

don't u live in Jasper, about an hour from ATL, and drive to ATL? You're not a commuter Joe.