Originally Posted by rickair7777

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The FAA does not protect your beauty rest AFTER you are done with 121 flying. They do not have a legal mandate to do that, and any such attempt would be challenged and over-turned in court. They have no authority in labor or work-rule issues.


Behavior can be mandated and has. There are numerous Supreme Court decisions that state what organizations and people can and can not do. Do not let your thinking be so limited.



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That would make for pretty inefficient schedules. Careful what you ask for, it would probably look like six days on / two days off all month long.


inefficient on whose schedule? Are you a company man?




Ten hours in-room might be feasible.


But the FAA cannot mandate "sleep", all they can mandate is rest opportunity... each pilot has to make appropriate use of that opportunity as needed. Otherwise you would be in violation of the FARs any time you did any activity on an overnight which left a digital paper trail, like phoning your wife, email, facebook, etc.


Sleep/rest let not get caught up in semantics





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Maybe.


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Flight attendants would hate you. When I do a transcon, I go to a hotel but the FA's often go back to the other coast... that allows them to make a LOT of credit on their work days. 95% of them don't want to be stuck with 117.

But it sounds like your real problem is you work for mesa. I'd recommend another regional. Some of them don't punish you for fatigue.