Originally Posted by NightIP

Exactly. I don't think half of the people screaming about days off have actually worked a 16 hour duty day with 8 hours of flying. I've done it plenty, and it's not safe.

Remember, our first priority is safety. We have real actual people sitting behind us when we're flying: women, children, grandmas, grandpas, fathers, sons, daughters, mothers, the works. Would any one of you be comfortable looking any one of them in the eye and saying "Well ma'am, we could have brought our maximum duty days to 12 hours and made it less probable that you'll die in a fiery crash, but we decided that we like our days off better"?

Me personally, I'd feel like a dirtbag for that. It's extremely selfish, hypocritical, and shows disregard for the one thing we say we hold as our #1 goal: that is, keeping the flying public safe.

So, ask yourselves this: Do you actually care about safety, or do you just say you do? Here's where we can tell the difference.