Originally Posted by DAWGS

I think Carl has a valid point. You say JFK-LAX to support your argument, when that is in the minority since it goes over 10 hours. The majority of east-west trips could be done as a turn with the new NPRM and you know these are the trips Carl is referring too. You are right in the fact that the top 10 percent would do these trips. Look no further than our FAs. Who is more succeptable to the effects of a 10 hour flight day...the old pilots who will be bidding them. But wait, wasn't this all about improving safety?

Where is your scientific evidence that flying 10 flight hours extendable to a 15 hour duty day is more safe than flying 8 in 15 or say 8 in 16 for whitlow? This is nothing more than a horse trade and our union is smack right in the middle of it. ALPA is part of the problem.