Originally Posted by
gloopy
Obviously not for most people most of the time. But the company expects you to show up for an absolute max duty day each and every time its legal. When you "say it out loud" like the poster in reference did, it makes it sound asinine. Which it is. But that's literally what we're expected to do even though its biologically impossible.
If we really cared about fitness for duty, we’d be fighting for quarterly (or longer) shift-based bids, so that you’d fly the same time of day for months at a time. But pilots don’t actually care about fitness for duty or safety above all. We care about commutability, late shows and early releases to maximize time off, etc.
Everyone on both sides is being disingenuous about safety, giving only lip service to safety as a veil to get what they really want.