Originally Posted by
HSLD
Responsible for what?
Not sure where the disconnect is;
Originally Posted by
HSLD
To answer your question; 8 hours free from duty is the reg. so yes the company is meeting the requirements of the reg. Is it safe, you and I both know the answer to that.
If the company went by a more restrictive "rest" policy than the current FAR's, responsibility would be on the crew member, NOT the company.
Originally Posted by
HSLD
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.
Not sure why you're wasting your time telling me this.
After 6 base closures, being downgraded twice, furloughed once, taking my 4th involuntary pay cut, I ALREADY figured this crap out a long time ago.
Originally Posted by
HSLD
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.
See above. But think about this, Colgan just proved what happens when the unit cost is driven to the lowest possible numbers.
Originally Posted by
HSLD
So when we talk about responsibility, we're talking about a shared legal responsibility to observe current FARs.
We're gonna end up talking in circles. We've already covered that the company is only interested in doing what's legal, not taking any responsibility.
Originally Posted by
HSLD
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.
Yep, the unions are going to have to step up to the plate. The problem is one we've seen over, and over, and over again in (insert negotiation) here. Pilots are too divided, and money (compensation) will always win on the give and take that occurs come contract time.