Hi!

Congress is involved here, and they can do whatever they want, just like with how they changed the Age 65 rules.

According to another thread, they are basically revising the British CAA rules, which are MUCH more stringent than the US rules. If the rules are changed as they were stating in that thread, the airlines will be forced to hire a LOT more pilots to maintain their current schedules:

No standup overnights, min rest 10 hours, non-reducable, I think a 12 hour duty day, possibly with no flight time limitations, a shorter duty day if starting on the back side of the clock, shorter reserve periods, a shorter duty day if lots of legs, etc., etc.

cliff
NBO
PS-Here in Kenya the international rules are min rest 11 hours, non-reducable. 15 hours is the max duty day (NO flight time limitations), and that requires 17 hours of rest.