Originally Posted by OOfff

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.