Who cares about that policy.

If you are fatigued and feel you cannot operate the aircraft SAFELY you call in.

Typical scare tatics from pinchanickel management. They have these policies because they run the staffing so lean. What other companies have their reserves flying 60-80 hours a month?

People HAVE been abusing this policy. Its put in place as a safety measure and people abuse it to get days off or be released from reserve early which we can all agree is completely unprofessional and makes life harder for everyone else out there.

and apparently people who posted on this board can't read well because there is this note "*Mitigating circumstances that prevent a rest period from being fully utilized will be considered when determining whether a fatigue call is acceptable." in case you do get a bad nights sleep or for whatever reason are fatigued.

Wow, you guys are defending this?

My previous airline now has fatigue calls fall under the ASAP program. Call in fatigued, send in an ASAP, no punishment or even the risk of it.

My current airline has a "no questions asked" policy about fatigue. If you're fatigued, call in, and they don't ask questions about why. They even pay you at 100% of your scheduled line value so you don't make it a financial decision instead of a safety decision. And no, people don't abuse it.

There is no excuse for Colgan's fatigue policy.

It does not allow for any mitigating circumstances if you just came from a day off. If you get a bad night sleep on your day off, a fatigue call will not be accepted.

It also says mitigating circumstances will be considered, that does not mean they will be accepted as excusable.

There is no excuse for any airline to intimidate pilots into flying fatigued. Many airlines use subtle intimidation tactics. Most don't want to risk the liability of having a written "no fatigue calls accepted" approach.

So what do you say about the people who abuse this policy to get days off and released from reserve early?

People who abuse this policy are clearly in the wrong, and should be punished accordingly. HOWEVER, putting out a memo like this is the face of all the recent scrutiny that Colgan has been receiving about rest and fatigue is just plain stupid. I think this should immediately go to the press for the entire world to see.

Simply the cost of doing business with a no-fault fatigue policy. Can't catch all of them, but if you treat employees as professionals they're much less likely to abuse the policy.

The same thing that you're going to say about the pilots who are pressured into flying an airplane fatigued due to this policy. Nothing!

Are you part of management? Chief pilot? Assistant chief pilot?

no...just a reg line pilot who thinks people shouldn't use a safety policy to get free days off..calling fatigue shouldn't be a joke that people throw around if they want to get a day off which I have seen many times.