Originally Posted by PilotFrog

Well there go all the Caribbean layovers. Most of Europe can now be done 2 man for the way TO Europe, but not the way back. How do these rules compare to ICAO rules? Are we now going to be more or less expensive than AF/KLM, Italia, VAtlantic, etc? Now that the bar has been reset when we go to negotiations do we negotiate off what we had which was based on the old rules, or new stuff based on these rules? I am sure the schedulers will use the two years to develop schedules that will take advantage of this. I see a lot more 1 day trips. Maybe that will be nice. 4 days 36 hrs home ever night.