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Air carrier captain laments his company's policy to pushback early whenever possible; believing that it puts too much pressure on all of the employees involved and will lead to mistakes.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1157708 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201403 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0001-0600 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Night |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | B737-700 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Parked |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 408 Flight Crew Type 23500 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | No Specific Anomaly Occurred All Types |
Narrative:
With the new program of pushing early; I feel the agents are under undue pressure to push early and this pressure is passed on to the flight crews. Today I had two open maintenance write-ups and needed to amend the release; but operations just kept trying to hurry me; so we could push early. Under these conditions; I feel it would be really easy to rush and make a mistake. I feel that top leadership has put too much emphasis on pushing early at the expense of safety. I feel the next incident at our company will be caused by rushing the crews to push early. Quit putting so much pressure on employees to push early; slow down; and make safety a priority.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Air Carrier Captain laments his company's policy to pushback early whenever possible; believing that it puts too much pressure on all of the employees involved and will lead to mistakes.
Narrative: With the new program of pushing early; I feel the agents are under undue pressure to push early and this pressure is passed on to the flight crews. Today I had two open maintenance write-ups and needed to amend the release; but Operations just kept trying to hurry me; so we could push early. Under these conditions; I feel it would be really easy to rush and make a mistake. I feel that top Leadership has put too much emphasis on pushing early at the expense of safety. I feel the next incident at our Company will be caused by rushing the crews to push early. Quit putting so much pressure on employees to push early; slow down; and make safety a priority.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.