No Aircraft
Dispatch Dispatcher
Time Pressure; Workload; Fatigue
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; No Specific Anomaly Occurred Unwanted Situation
General None Reported / Taken
Staffing; Human Factors; Environment - Non Weather Related
30 flights today. Hoping for a perfect day; no swaps; no 2nd releases. Too many flights. Yesterday; another Dispatcher with 30+ flights had a Part 91 flight. The Part 91 flight was not a typical one concerning flight planning and approaches with runway closed. The result was that the Dispatcher and Chief spent so much time on this flight to make sure it was legal and safe; that the Dispatcher was unable to leave the desk to grab their lunch out of the fridge to eat. The Dispatcher did not eat lunch due to the operational pressure to release the remaining flights on the desk before shift end. So sad that Dispatchers are forgoing lunch and bathroom breaks due to the increase in workload. What a shame to what this has become.
Air Carrier Dispatcher reported the office workload has increase to a level that now interferes with lunch and lavatory breaks.