I am stunned that there are pilots who will talk all day long about safety and then when a significant safety-related rule is about the come down from the authorities they start getting nervous about fewer days off.

The science is done. The debate is over. 16 hour workdays in a safety-critical industry are not safe.

Let the chips fall where the may regarding schedules. But this change has been a long time coming and if folks start to get weak kneed about it maybe it won't happen and we can just keep flying from 6AM until 10PM. Anyone who works on the east coast in places like PHL, LGA, EWR, JFK knows that there are plenty of these days.

This change must happen sooner rather than later.