Nine in ten Virgin Atlantic pilots have seen a colleague make a mistake on the flight deck, figures seen by LBC show
In a memo circulated to members, the union said that "our message to our employer is clear – there must be change, and that change has to start now”, adding that there is "a genuine safety risk presented by cumulative fatiguing flights". BALPA also said that the survey should make "Virgin Atlantic, their shareholders, and the regulators, stop and think".
For example, CRR which usually involves 30 minutes of sleep, is not meant to be used outbound from the UK – yet 99% of pilots admitted to using it on that leg, with nearly 56% saying that they mostly or always did so.A Virgin Atlantic plane landing at Heathrow.One pilot affected told LBC that there were "constantly" pilots calling in fatigued.
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