Originally Posted by Sniper

Where can I find this FAA study that says accident risk is 550% higher after a duty day of over 13 hours? Both the FAA and the EASA studies seem to say, quite clearly, that a duty day of over 13 hours is unsafe.

Currently, a 121 Supplemental 3 man crew (2 pilots and a FE, so nobody is resting) can have an 18 hour duty day, 12 hours aloft, and 8 hours of of 'flight deck duty' (FAR 121.507). If 13 hours of duty is 5.5 times more likely to result in an accident, want to guess what 18 hours is?

And that 18 hours doesn't start until you're reporting "for duty for the purposes of flight". The ALPA handbook explains in Q-82 that if you're deadheaded from SLC-HNL, and then you fly HNL to ?, "the duty time for the crew . . . [starts] at Honolulu."

It's time for a change. 13 hour max duty day, and I'm glad to see @ least ALPA is supporting it (Do either IBT or CAPA have any official support position? Were they part of the ARC too?).