Then why not lower the cap to 76 or 63 or pick your own number? How many additional CA seats could be created by every pilot only flying 50 a month? Again, the argument is not what people are flying, its the desire of those few to control many. And if being an individual is an ugly thing, then so be it. I refuse to be a lemming. Flying and pay are always two different things and I would never want FAR's to be our limits but I find the group mentality as to what the collective pilot individual "comfort" level should be, IMO, distasteful.

To take the good with the bad, as mentioned before, we already do. CAL allows pilots to fly as little as possible or as much as possible. We have a large number of pilots that drop to the min and a large number that fly 120+. Most fly an average range between 74-88 hours as seen with the PBS ranges. I see an individual(s) desire to narrow this to a very limited range as unacceptable. Pilots situations, desires, needs, and wants constantly change. To "lump" all pilots into a very narrow band will never allow these individual changes to be modified.

We do need guidelines and work rules to prevent pilots from harming themselves and from taking advantage of a situation during downturns. The union and the company are both necessary evils and what we as pilots collectively request of the negotiating process is generally what we end up with, more or less.