The long corona breaks not only damage many companies in the travel industry economically. The fitness of some employees to work is also apparently severely affected.
As a worrying internal report by the Australian airline Qantas reveals, the two years of pandemic have left their mark on pilots. Australian media released details of the investigation on Wednesday.
And it comes to the conclusion: The pilots sometimes make fatal mistakes!
As the newspapers “Sydney Morning Herald” and “Melbourne’s Age” reported, it happened, among other things, that pilots forgot to release the parking brakes during take-off and upset the altitude and speed of the aircraft. It also happened that switches in the cockpit were in the wrong position and external inspections of the machine before take-off were not concentrated.
Routine tasks that had previously been done with minimal effort now sometimes require more time and thereby impaired attention, the internal letter warned.
“Getting pilots used to work again”
The sometimes long breaks for the pilots due to the corona pandemic led to less up-to-date flight experience and thus to a reduced “cognitive ability” of the staff.
A spokeswoman for Qantas said that airlines worldwide are facing the “complex process of returning to pre-Corona times”. This also includes getting pilots who have been on the ground back used to work.
Qantas quickly realized that special reintegration programs were necessary and initiated them. “Safety is our top priority,” she assured.
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