Thanks, Gillegan -

Much clearer to me now.

It appears, then, in their efforts to conspire with the authorities they're managing to do a pretty fair job of shooting themselves in the foot.

I'm sure that's very small satisfaction to you folks who have to fly high time.

They're currently pushing for 1/2 to one for bunk time and deadhead time as a contractural concession over here. They've had some success at several carriers - ones that went BK, and LCC startups. Fortunately, the unions are managing to slow this trend down -- but the writing is on the wall.

So - the last time they attempted this - did they actually build your monthly schedules 120 hours, or did they mainly abuse the pilots on reserve?

From what I've been able to gather from the various threads, the Airbus side of the house at EK has been taking the brunt of the abuse - is this spreading fleet wide?