Originally Posted by
sailingfun
If we adopted something that would seem to satisfy you ever pilot would be working 25 days a month.
Absolutely the most ridiculous thing you have written. This is why your opinions (AKA-ALPA) don't resonate with people. Your logic is blinded by your allegiance to ALPA. We currently work under rules at Delta which hold the line at 8 flight hours and I very rarely have a duty day over 13 hours. I usually work 14-15 days a month with 75-80 hours of hard flying.
There is a law of unintended consequences to everything. ALPA tried to find a balance that would promote safety and allow a reasonable quality of life. It also does you no good at all to put a unworkable proposal out that will simply be ignored. There are realities in all aspects of work rules. Some don't like it but they are there.
Flying 10 hours in a 15 hour day does absolutely nothing to promote safety. You are working the pilot harder. No matter what the limitations, if the rules allow for a max fly day, max duty day, into the "window of circadian low," you are asking for trouble.
Without question the ALPA proposal is a dramatic improvement over current rules. Its not perfect however nothing is and the FAA chose to adopt much of what they put forward because it had real science behind the changes and still allowed airlines to staff and fly their schedules.
I am not saying it is all bad by a long shot. I just think you would support anything ALPA put out even if they wanted to fly us 12 domestic hours. You would somehow tell us how it was good for us and the best we could do.