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Flight Attendant Fatigue, Part I: National Duty, Rest, and Fatigue Survey
Avers, Katrina Bedell; King, S. Janine; Nesthus, Thomas E.; Thomas, Suzanne; Banks, Joy. U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI). Report no. DOT/FAA/AM-09/24. December 2009. 23 pp. Figures, references.
At the instigation of the U.S. Congress, CAMI has been studying flight attendant fatigue in connection with six research topics recommended in an initial report in 2007. A report on the sixth topic, fatigue countermeasures, was published previously (ASW, 11/09, p. 55), while the first of those recommendations, a “national survey of flight attendant field operations,” led to this report.
To frame its findings, the report says, “It is important to recognize that fa…
