What Does Ethics in the Aviation Profession Mean to You?

 

The aviator pilot training process must include technical knowledge, abilities, and skills, the development of a high capacity to respond to unusual situations with high decision-making power, and assertiveness to manage complex operational scenarios in a highly developed aviation where the automation has a growing presence; however, training in ethical, cultural, and social aspects is important, as well as developing non-technical but highly relevant skills such as cooperation, leadership, and personal resource management based on a highly developed code of values.

Although quality training and the promotion of values ​​are important in any field, they are even more so in professions linked to the safety of people with direct responsibility for the lives and well-being of others, as is the case of pilots. Human acts in freedom, intelligence and will be based on fundamental values ​​such as respect for human life, honesty, sensitivity, gratitude, respect, prudence, and responsibility must be a constant.

Let us remember that the introduction of ethics and values ​​not only in a theoretical framework but also in a practical one in each of the activities of the pilot, instructor and aviation student, will contribute to improving the quality of aeronautical training and this being the key to maintaining aviation as a the safest means of transport in the world.

Lets talk about spirit,

In 2013, Skytrax, an air-travel consultancy, downgraded its rating of Spirit to make it the nation’s only two-star carrier. The distinction reflects “a poor standard of Product and/or poor and inconsistent standards of Staff Service delivery,” placing Spirit in a colorful group of carriers that includes national airlines for failed states, like Syrianair and Yemenia, as well as Indonesia’s Merpati Nusantara Airlines, which suspended service last February when 50 of its 178 pilots resigned after not having been paid for a quarter.

The downgrade by Skytrax coincided with a five-year period when Spirit led all major US airlines in the number of complaints filed with the Department of Transportation. Between 2009 and 2013, passengers on Spirit were nearly three times as likely to file a complaint as passengers on any other airline, and more remarkable yet, every year the volume of complaints grew. By the fall of last year, the Spirit experience had become so notorious among travelers that a Timeonline poll found that, by a small margin, respondents preferred the possibility of flying with snakes to abiding it.