Originally Posted by Gunter

To get the extra night(s) for hub turning the rules have to be carefully crafted to manage it. The airline industry is fighting any restrictions or complications to their scheduling flexibility and don't want ANY night duty or rests to be heavily restricted.

I think the power players don't understand all the issues involved, are hopelessly corrupt or both.

My uneducated guess is week on/week off will soon be hard to find. The industry doesn't care. They're happy to see two or three days off either side of a 3-4 day "week" of flying. Passenger pilots don't see a problem with this because that's how they do it. But no one mentions how 7 to 7.5 hrs of pay a day during that time for a pax guy outclasses the cargo model and results in more days of work per month. That will kill many a cargo guy's week free of flying.