Originally Posted by
Brad4est
Sorry, I'm a bit late to the discussion, but ..
Domestically it is not the 30 in 7 that will cause major changes to our schedule, but the 8 in 24 rule. Currently, under supplemental rules, we can fly more than 8 in 24 as long as there is an intervening legal rest period. (See Part 121. 505) Many of our flights, domestically, use this ability to exceed 8 in 24. Under Flag Operations, you can only fly 8 in 24, period, intervening rest period or not.
The Flag change will impact quite a few of our trips domestically and how they are built, all to our benefit. Perhaps not surprisingly, when I asked the Flt Ops rep at my last training class about this, they were unaware there were different rules and hadn't looked at how it would impact our schedule at all. I personally think it will be fairly significant, especially on the west coast trips and multi-leg trips the optimizer so loves.
Don't mix Flag with Domestic rules, they are two entirely different things, just as Supplemental is a different thing from both Flag and Domestic.
There is no 8 hour limit for Domestic at all, just a max of 8 hours between required rest periods.
Don't confuse that to mean that you can't fly more than 8 hours in a 24 hour period. What rule do you think limits you to 8/24 in either flag or domestic, please cite it?
Flag rules will impact ZERO trips Domestically.