Originally Posted by B6Guy
The current transcon flights have for example: a 0700 show, arrive at LAS at 1030 local. You go to your hotel room for a 10-11 hour 'rest'. Ever try sleeping in a LAS hotel with all the traffic in the hallway?? Kids, drunks, winners and loosers talking at 95 decibels?? Good luck getting any rest. Then you get up at 21-2200 local [0000 to 0200 EST] and fly all night back to JFK, with poor rest if any, in the night during your normal sleep times. NOT very safe, but happens all the time since it is FAA legal. [FAA stupid IMO].
Your problem is obviously with the hotel accommodations, not the FAR's. Do you have a hotel chairman? Get the crew into a suitable hotel or call fatigued for the return leg, simple.