That's why the "paper trail" after an accident won't just be limited to pulling non rev records. They will ask for, and get, cell phone company call/text/tower ping data, ez-pass, on star, parking lot ID swipe times, hotel check in times, credit card reciepts, emails, facebook, ATM machines, etc. to use as evidence that a rogue renegade pilot was "careless and wreckless" and was a primary cause of an accident.

The more I read of this monstrosity the more it looks like it was written by the ATA and signed into law. I know, I know, were it not for ALPA/CAPA/etc it would have been worse. Worse is just hard to see right now.

Some of the worst regionals and supplimentals will have to hire a few more pilots but the legacy's won't really see much additional staffing that I can tell. A lot will depend on scheduled versus actual and if there is any relief for IROPS and the like or if all of these are hard times.

9 hours isn't really enough for a transcon turn and if its a hard 9 hours (as defined by throttle up+ projected time on last leg like it currently is) then I don't see very many scheduled ops over 8 hours because that will lead to a lot of CX flights far from base/position for the pilot and the plane and a lot of gate returns for their 2 pilot ETOPS fantasy anytime there are even marginal ground delays. If the 9 hours or 2 man ETOPS times are flexibile like the current 8 is (legal to start legal to finish) then its a net loss for us big time.