ABSTRACT
Most respondents and interviewees said they were in a relationship. A majority of respondents’ partners were in paid employment. Of these, nearly thirty percent worked in commercial aviation, the majority of these working as flight attendants. It was noted that aviation-related occupations had a higher divorce rate than nonaviation occupations. The questionnaire sought to establish to what degree pilots who were divorced attributed their failed marriage to work patterns (that is, rostering). Sixty-three percent of divorcees who chose to answer this question claimed that rostering played some part.
