Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Confusion; Communication Breakdown
ATC Issue All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Company Policy; Human Factors
I have brought this up before; but feel compelled to do so again. The amount of confusion; caused by similar sounding call signs; I was witness to this past week operating in and out of ZZZ will eventually lead to a violation or mishap. [Company] scheduled at least three flights beginning with 16 (inbound) or 17 (outbound) and ending in 9 to be operating on the same approach control frequency at the same time each and every night. Please I implore you to listen to the tapes and hear the number of times that the wrong aircraft answered an ATC transmission; or missed a call; or that ATC misunderstood an aircraft call. This is an accident waiting to happen and when it does someone will have to answer for it. This issue has been raised for a long time and we will eventually not be able to keeping dodging bullets. I don't fully know the compelling operational reason for this lunacy.Focus on the flight safety concern and not the current scheme's entrenched obstruction to doing the right thing. Listen to the tapes if you doubt the seriousness of this situation. Ask the controllers. Put yourself in the shoes of the flight crew on day five of hub turning with two legs outbound from the AM launch.
A300 Captain reported several similar sounding call signs on the same ATC frequencies repeatedly.