The company again reduced rest periods on trip patterns and works against agreements to get a program through the summer which they can’t due to bad establishment planning. The two pilot, with only one night down route is a potential safety risk especially during the summer when it’s storm season [at location]. This needs to be changed to two nights or three pilots asap. It massively adds to the fatigue of already very tiring rosters with so many two pilot, one nights being rostered with min days off and 5 trips a month. Also planning west, east, west, east adds to the fatigue, more consideration of rostering flights west, west and then east, east would help.
If the CAA is not stopping the airlines from using flight time limitations as targets for rostering instead of limitations nothing will ever change.
Company / Organisation Comment
Airline provided CHIRP with a responsebut chose not to agree to have it published in FEEDBACK.
CHIRP Comment
See FC5407, but noting this report concerns a different airline.As this reporter did,CHIRP continues to encourage strongly staff to report to their airline all fatigue-related incidents and potential hazards so that information and data can be captured to support positive change,as is happening with some airlines and associated roster changes.It is recognised that always having to report incidents induces report fatigue, however, the penultimate paragraph of the ILAHFFT entry from this FEEDBACK edition is also relevant to this discussion.
