Originally Posted by
FL410
FYI... Horizon is coming up with their our "new" rest requirements. This was caused by the extreme amount of fatigue calls/cancellations. This is one great example of the pilots and FA's working together to express good decision making, unity, and the responsibility of a airline crew. Through the fatigue calls MGMT is evaluating and will likely change the rest requirements and duty day. Rumors are no less than 10 rest and max duty of 12 hours.
Now, let actually see if it goes through. At AAG they are going to the extreme of crunching pennies. So, if those new times do go through then it is a step in the right derection. Good job to the QX crews that called in fatigued and didn't fly fatigued.
Kudos for Horizon pilots and FAs if that's what they really did. I agree with Max duty time of no more than 12 hours and minimum overnight rest period of at least 10 hours, preferably 11 hours of rest to account for waiting for passengers to deplane, which can be very long especially if there are many requiring WCs, waiting for the hotel van and van ride to the hotel.