It does require a few more employees, however this is the cost of doing business in a legal and safe way. If a business cannot be run according to legal restraints, then it is time to find a new line of business. I know that it can be done successfully, as we do it every day and we are growing at an amazing rate. We also do not run an on call crew 24 hours per day. Our on call schedule ends in the evening and starts back up in the morning. We operate 24 hours a day, but only scheduled trips will go into the overnight hours. Another thing that could happen is to take crewmembers who are scheduled to be off, and call them to see if they want to fly...no pressure to do it though. In that case, the crewmembers will have been on rest because they have been scheduled OFF for the time preceeding the call.

I guess that our management has just decided that the amount of midnight call outs that we receive do not offset the cost of staffing the airplanes heavier than we already do. At some point that may not be the case, but at that point we will just hire more people, not interpret the regs for our convenience.