Originally Posted by
Otters
Safety issue, sorry no. A learning issue, most definitely. Look, when we have a wide body fleet well in excess of 100 airplanes flying around the world on the back side of the clock , not to mention a large number of narrow bodies flying coast to coast at night, it’s a little hard to defend a group from training at less than ideal times for a couple of hours. It is a safety issue out in the real world and we’ve done it for decades and managed quite well. Let’s all man up a little on this please.
Like the others previously, I call b.s. we fly all-nighters and limp thru them. That is a garbage training scenario and is flatly unacceptable. Our training on my fleet already sucks, let’s not make it worse by forcing sleep deprivation into the training profile. It isn’t about manning up. It’s about investing in acceptable resources to complete the mission in a productive manner. That is United managements job. It is the pilot group and ALPAs job to ensure it gets done. Spend the $$, acquire or secure the requisite training slots. Not that hard....