San Diego State University
Team Members: Kevin Haney, Susan Holtzman, Michelle Hartstein, Jennifer Piña, Tonje Gulbrandsen, Vince Nicholais Advisor:
Carol Venable Executive Summary As representatives
of Aero Consulting Group, we will present a solution to the problem
of alcohol-induced pilots operating passenger planes. The drinking
patterns of employees of the airline industry and the degree to
which they comply with existing policies have an impact not only
on these individuals themselves but also on the lives of many
others for whose safety they are responsible. Presently, pilots
feel that randomized alcohol testing is an unnecessary invasion
of their privacy and a wrongful assumption of guilt. Current measures,
while protecting the privacy of pilots, do not effectively ensure
passenger safety. As a service provider, the airlines have ethical
and legal responsibilities to provide safe transportation of passengers.
For this reason, we are recommending an increase in preventative
measures to guarantee passenger safety. We recommend that airlines
implement a more extensive alcohol-testing policy. Currently,
the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mandates random alcohol
testing at a rate of about 10% per year; however, we believe this
rate should increase significantly. This policy will help to prevent
disasters that could be extremely costly to airline companies.
The costs required to implement our program are far less than
the financial devastation of just one alcohol-related crash.
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