Originally Posted by acl65pilot

If you recall in the NPRM, there was a whole section dedicated to the min rest required behind the door and then the time from leaving the jet to the time you got in the room, as well as the time to transport back to the airplane the next day. There was all of this talk of it not being duty and not being rest. As I see it, in the new ruling they got rid of a lot of that grey area crap and went with a hard 10 hrs with no less than 8 hrs behind the door that is dedicated to rest.

As a result of this, many of the nine hr layos will now be 30+ due to marketing needs.