Originally Posted by
Grumble
If this is the case, Airbus will have to fix it or no US carrier will be able to utilize it. No way they'll let that happen.
It will be something like 5% fix, 95% waiver. While they are hammering that out, watch for foreign "as is" A350s at a hub near you. If it's from the ME3, there's a good chance the pilots are on yet another 100+ hour month (time in the bunk doesn't count towards monthly caps over there). Isn't it sad to think that a relative of a passenger killed in the Colgan BUF crash can buy a ticket on a foreign carrier and not realize that the 117 rules that they lobbied Congress so hard for do not apply to that particular flight? That's what globalization is all about
: rewarding the lower standard and punishing the higher one. Safety be damned.