Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Yes.
Flight Time Duty Time will be a big deal. Better and worse. Expect quite a few more re routes. We will either be quite a bit more productive, or have a lot of 30 hour sits ... probably a little of both.
I can't see trips being more productive. With the hard limits on block hours and flight duty period plus the 10 hours min rest, I'd bet domestic pilots will unfortunately be working more days a month.
One cure for the 30 hour layover would be the split duty "stand-up" trips, but that would have be be negotiated.