I'm sure the system could stand to shed a few pounds.

But I'd say this, the chart with the max duty hours allowed given your show time makes things more complicated but its worth it to have that.

But by having different rules for domestic and international and 2-man and augmented crews and so on, it gets extremely fuzzy. Thank goodness for decision trees. I got that out of When Scheduling Calls. I'm looking through the Transition Working Group Notepad right now, thats pretty good stuff that I doubt many DALS guys know about. I highly highly recommend downloading CA 09-12 from deltapilots.org. I'm not versed in the contract, I just have this 1,100 page document on one single PDF file and use CTRL + F.

It'd just be interesting to hear from Alpha, Slow, Sailing, i.e. Slow Alpha Sailing (SAS) or ALPA upon what they'd like to change because they know or should know how it affects other stuff. Part 135 rules is 10 hours of rest. I wish Part 121 would follow that and whatever the rule changes are, if ever, that come down on rest then it'll be interesting to see what that does.

FWIW, I'd love to see a GS/YS/WS decision tree! Imagine how it ends: "PUT SLIP IN, YOU WIN" "PUT THAT SLIP IN AND YOU'RE SCREWED"