I agree. I only wonder why it only seems to be a one way street. One would think that a deliberate falsification of a flight release would be grounds for dismissal...nah. After a rejected takeoff and rather lengthy ground delay to fix aircraft, the company sent us a new release. This was about 4 hours after our first release, and knowing that our drop dead time was coming up before our 9.5 hour flight. Amazingly, the flight time was 30 minutes quicker than the previous release. Of course that made us barely legal to continue. More amazingly was the fact that nothing had changed. Not the flight altitude, cruise mach, winds at altitude, only the flight time and scheduled block had changed...hmmm. But the DC-10 CP did acknowledge "they're not supposed to do that." Sure wish it was that easy when we screw up..."I know, I know, I wasn't supposed to do that."

By the way, that was the second time that had happened to me. The first time was a couple years prior where they magically decreased the flight time by exactly one hour on a 6:45 scheduled flight. Does this occur to anybody else?