Well stated.

In other news, they discovered why dogs spin in circles before doing #2. Apparently dog poop is aligned with magnetic north ... who knew?

Mystery solved: Why dogs spin in circles before doing their business

Actually, it's up to 24 hours prior to the selected flights scheduled, local departure time. (The Mrs. is an AA F/A.)

Wow. That's messed up. :eek:

Thanks for the correction, although, I still think it's messed up. Having access to both ways of doing it, which does your wife think is the better way?

Did the union mention when a letter writing campaign to the government regulators (along with trying to stop the pre clearance facility in Abu Dhabi) will begin to get this properly addressed? Clearly the intent is being missed here.

Considering the opportunity to get meaningful change adopted to reduce fatigue only seems to come along once in a pilots lifetime it seems this should be a top priority to include publicly placed press releases that the airlines are subverting the intent of the new fatigue rules.

From what I got, discussions with the company were ongoing to resolve the misinterpretations. When or if they bear fruit wasn't speculated on.

OK, hopefully this ends up going the way it was intended and not watered down to become worthless. Just like the SD memo, which btw seems to be working, the company generally gets the productivity they want in the end. If not, more required carpet dances until they do.

That what I was afraid of when I posted on this topic a few days ago. We needed a strong union response....we did not get one and now every day a little leverage slips away as operating IAW the memo becomes the status quo.

Not to mention a dramatic decline in the number of urgent "absolutely has to get there overnight no matter how much it costs" letters IOW low cost ultra high yield cargo. OTOH, overall volume of general consumer stuff (higher cost lower yield) shipped is up (at the expense of retail) with the internet shopping trend which looks to be a [mostly] permanant paradigm shift. The big threat are the ME carriers who, rocking subsidies from both sides, are planning on doing to the big cargo guys what they are in the process of attempting to do to all the established legacy airlines world wide: take deilvery of mass quantities of widebodies limited only by factory production rates and barf capacity all over anything and everywhere until the competition yields.