So if it makes us safer you would be for it? How about not being able to be extended to 16 hours? That makes it safer. I know you can call in fatigue, so can I and many of our pilots IF we can sense it before we are impaired by it. But doesn’t it make you wonder, why do we have less fatigue calls than any other airline, especially considering our system form? Some need to be empowered and those that don’t will be better off for it anyway, not to mention that 16 hour duty extensions become extinct.

Also, you make it a point that management will demand more than 7:35 in negotiations and that somehow that it a fait accompli in a post-117 negotiation. Yet you just throw out that we can simply negotiate away management’s ability to extended us to 16 hours? Why would they? Once under 117, WE have the leverage, not the other way around.

And there is always the fact that fatigue impares judgement, that’s what makes it insidious. Part 117 works to mitigate that possibility that to begin with, its proscriptive in nature on purpose. That’s a major way that 117 makes a flight operations safer. But I’m sure you will ignore that also but yet you don’t care. I honestly doubt you don’t care because I want to give you the benefit of the doubt that you know that that it’s true.