BALPA membership survey

ComRes interviewed 500 BALPA members by telephone between 27th August – 6th September 2013

Date Published: 25 Sep 2013

Categories: Professionals | Social | Transport | UK

Description

The survey of 500 commercial pilots conducted by ComRes on behalf of the British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) found that:

•                56% of pilots admit to having fallen asleep on the flight deck and, even more worryingly, of those who admitted this nearly 1 in 3 (29%) said they woke to find the other pilot asleep;

•                43% said they believed their abilities have been compromised at least once a month in the last 6 months by tiredness, with 84% saying it has been compromised during the past 6 months;

•                31% don’t believe their airline has a culture that lends itself to reporting tiredness concerns with only a half (51%) saying they believed their airline Chief Executive would back them if they refused to fly because of tiredness.

•                Unprompted, 49% said pilot tiredness was the biggest threat to flight safety, three times more than any other threat.