Originally Posted by stabapch

The new chief of the FAA is a former Delta executive... that says it all right there. Congress passed 117 in order to PREVENT fatigue from occurring, NOT forcing pilots to work until they eventually have to call fatigue. I would like to say that’s where a union can help ya, but hearing stories from my peers, in most cases unions are just toothless tigers when it comes to this. If OO is forcing you to extend they MUST be using “unforeseen circumstances” as a pretext, because by law they cannot make an extension mandatory in every scenario. If you feel like you are being “forced” to extend by threat of disciplinary and/or financial action as a result of calling fatigue, I highly urge you to start making this company practice as public as possible and writing to your congressman, because this is a clear threat to public safety.