Originally Posted by
DYNASTY HVY
It schould be the responsibility of your company to provide adequate rest and that would mean a HOTEL .
For the life of me I cannot understand why you people put up with this .
Maybe management schould spend the night sleeping in a crew room ?
Ally
As with just about everything, things change with time. Anything a management team deems not cost effective or expense will be set aside. I can not tell you how many times I have seen this happen. ie. hotel downgrades, time rest periods between trips or the crew meal thing.
Either way, we have airlines being run by accountants, not aviations professionals. Safety comes second to the bottom line in many of these meetings.
It is scary in some instances the disregard, but what do pilots do? They keep moving forward.