I am 100% in support of one level of safety with regards to flight time and duty rest limits for all airline pilots in the United States.

We should not have to "buy" safer operational limits via the collective bargaining process, and anyone who claims that 117 will cause more commutes, circadian flops, and decimate schedules is spreading nothing but FUD.

If your CBA is more restrictive than 117 in an area, nothing will change; if your CBA is less restrictive than 117 in an area, 117 will become your new 'FAR limit'. The FRMS in 117.7 allows deviations to 117 requirements, and there is zero reason to believe waivers jointly desired by both labor and management (week on/off schedules, for example) and backed by decades of safe operational experience would be denied.

Your employer (and mine and every other company that makes up the Cargo Airline Association) is spending hundreds of man hours and thousands of PAC dollars lobbying against Safe Skies...do we really think they're doing that in OUR collective best interest?