Originally Posted by CousinEddie

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.