Originally Posted by
BobbyLeeSwagger
I don't read ACs. But I would crew report that, not necessarily ASAP (although, sure, you could)
Edit: ok I'll meet you halfway. I looked at our ASAP MOU. It's primary purpose is to report a safety event and we know intentional non compliance is excluded from the program..
So in context to what I brought up earlier.... I don't think you can asap a sick flight attendant flying on your watch. I don't see how you would asap a flight attendant who is afraid of getting fired for calling sick either.
Would you asap the above?
I would, and you can. That's nothing to do with intentional noncompliance. That's talking about rejecting a report. If a mechanic intentionally takes a shortcut on a maintenance task and it causes a major incident, he can't just ASAP it and go "whelp I'll be fine I filed an ASAP, even though I knew the correct procedure and wasn't trained on it". However I meant in this context that the flight attendants feeling pressured to fly instead of calling in sick (and I have heard of them being sick and then suddenly well after getting a call from an inflight supervisor and getting stressed about getting an MFA etc), those ones should file an ASAP and get that in front of the FAA, who are definitely not OK with any crewmember being pressured to fly when not fit for duty.
As for crew reporting it vs ASAPing it... well it goes into the same system. Biggest difference... a pilot ASAP report goes to company, ALPA and FAA. Crew report goes to ... company only. FAA can't see it, ALPA can't see it. (The FA ones go to AFA instead of course)