Originally Posted by
aviatore
I have seen on a few occasions the chief pilot calling someone over a decision to notify maintenance of a discrepancy while at a hub instead of pilot-deferring it in the name of preserving D-0...
That's not telling someone to fly a broken airplane or pilot pushing. A pilot deferral should be a 5 minute exercise. If you choose not to complete that 5 minute exercise and leave it to MX then maybe you'd get a call but I never have. And IF you (or this person) got a call, did discipline result? Because if not, so what.
If that's the level of pilot pushing we're discussing then you have no idea how bad some other airlines have it.