At the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearings this week, pilot fatigue was front and center. Sen. Rockefeller (D-WV), committee chairman started off the hearings auspiciously.
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The president of the Airline Pilots Association, John Prater, had some sobering words about pilot fatigue before the Senate Subcommittee on Aviation, Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, yesterday. His testimony about the realities of a pilot’s life and duty time are eye-opening, to say the least.
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I’m back to my theme of unintended consequences. While the Transportation Department has been approving airline alliances and pursuing a U.S.-E.U. Open Skies agreement, the airlines have been figuring out ways to game the system. Now a pilot union that once supported all these efforts has awakened to a new reality they don’t like.
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