No shame. It is my belief that we are obligated under the RLA for interstate business and that our federal laws should take precedence over what California has. This all becomes a slippery slope argument. Today we have to comply with California's rest and meal break every 4-5 hrs. Tomorrow New York could come out with their own rules that are more conservative (frequent) meal and rest breaks that would then apply to crews based in NYC. Then Chicago could do the same. Where is the line drawn? Every state could enact their own meal/rest rules and apply it to flight crews based there. That should not be the intent of these state laws. They were clearly meant for people working inside that state. Reality is if you fly out of LAX, depending on which direction you're going, you are out of California in less than 30 minutes air time (west, south, east). Or northbound you're out in about 1.5 hrs.


You've already written you basically couldn't care less about their meal or rest breaks as long as they get their 1 hr additional pay per day. So that proves this isn't about safety or what's best for their health, we're just buying them off based on how the existing law is written. I'm sure the company and other airlines will figure out something for California based crews, time will tell.