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Old 03-30-2010, 08:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Wheels up View Post
ALPA has also endorsed changing the 8 hour fly day to 9 hours. That is going to KILL a lot of 3rd pilot jobs such as Caribbean turns. BUT it will help some senior DALPA screws do turns instead of overnights.
Yeah, that is interesting. How is flying an additional hour contribute to improve the current duty and rest requirement? I thought the whole point was that we, as pilots are already overworked and fatigue is an insidious form of performance deterioration. I am definitely against increasing 8 to 9 flying hours per day. That would defeat the whole purpose of limiting the maximum duty hours per day to 12. Besides, like you said, that would negate the need for additional pilot hiring.
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