When adult discourse is reduced to name calling and "Bla Bla Bla", you know people are getting desperate. With over 3,000 views and counting, I wouldn't be surprised if some of their pilots have been using the information in this thread to demand legal rest periods.

I don't understand why you won't staff your business and charge your customers appropriately. If your customer base truly requires a lot of last minute call-outs, then charge those customers for the extra staff that service requires. I bet you would find that they can often give more notice than they do, once you start tacking on surcharges.

Great quote! Stop the word games.

The FAA has never defined rest as a period of time during which you have a duty to answer your phone and be fit and available to fly. They have on many, many occasions defined it otherwise.

If the company restricts your ability to be sound asleep and unable/unwilling to answer your phone, then it ain't rest! Common sense!