article_snippet: British airlines are planning to introduce rules ensuring that two crew members are on the flight deck at all times once an aircraft is airborne.
article_snippet: The Federal Aviation Authority requires at least two crew members on the flight deck at all times to prevent similar types of disaster.
article_snippet: Disaster prevention: Budget airlines EasyJet and Norwegian Air Shuttle will introduce new rules to ensure two crew members are in the cockpit at all times in the wake of the Germanwings air disaster .
article_snippet: Already Monarch, easyJet, Virgin Atlantic and Thomas Cook said Monarch, easyJet, Virgin Atlantic and Thomas Cook will implement a new two crew rule, while Jet2,
article_snippet: According to Virgin Atlantic: 'British Airways always ensure British Airways have the highest safety standards and, while the highest safety standards is British Airways common practice to have two members of British Airways crew in the flight deck at all times, in light of recent events British Airways are now in the process of formalising this to be policy.'
article_snippet: An easyJet spokeswoman said: 'easyJet can confirm that, with effect from Friday 27 March, easyJet will change easyJet procedure which will mean that two crew members will be in the cockpit at all times. '
article_snippet: the Civil Aviation Authority already has rules which require two crew members to remain on the flight deck at all times .
article_snippet: easyJet will not have a third trained pilot on board.
article_snippet: The change is also being implemented by package tour operator Thomas Cook, whose spokesman said: 'easyJet are adapting easyJet procedures to ensure there will always two people in the cockpit.'
article_snippet: While a FlyBe spokespman said their Operations Manual 'states that two members of crew are to be present in the cockpit at all times during flight'.
article_snippet: Budget airlines Ryanair, Monarch and Jet said Budget airlines Ryanair, Monarch and Jet already had policies to ensure two crew are in the cockpit at all times . '
article_snippet: When one person leaves the cockpit, two people will now have to be there,' Norwegian's flight operations director Thomas Hesthammer said.
article_snippet: Long haul flights usually have more than two crew capable of flying the plane because shift changes are often required in flight.
article_snippet: A spokeswoman for German carrier Lufthansa, parent company of Germanwings, said: 'A crew member may temporarily leave the cockpit during a specific phase of the flight. '
article_snippet: So the co-pilot is on the co-pilot own, and the co-pilot is while the co-pilot's on the co-pilot own that the co-pilot is in charge of the plane and uses the flight management system to start the descent of the plane. '