Responsible for what?

Airline 101 teaches us that management views labor as a unit cost that must be reduced to the absolute minimum. In most airlines, pilots are a liability in the eyes of management, not an asset (no matter what that glad-handing exec tells you). A management's responsibility is to the shareholders and part of that is keeping unit costs (ie. YOU) as cheap as they can.

I understand what you're saying, I've lived it too, but it's very very rare for any management to claim a moral responsibility. The responsibility is to the shareholders, and you are a unit cost that must be lowered.

So when we talk about responsibility, we're talking about a shared legal responsibility to observe current FARs. A corporation is a non-living, non-breathing entity that only exists on paper and is therefore incapable of embracing a human concept like morals.

Morals are a human trait that would have to be embraced by airline CEOs, the Board, and shareholders to make meaninful change in crew rest rules - and we all know how that's going.

I'm afraid that unions will have to negociate a better, safer, contract or have new regulations forced upon the airlines for any real change to take place.