NPRM shafts commuters
 

Under the new NPRM rest rules 700am -1259 starts have the longest duty time per number of flight segments. Looking for efficiency I imagine the company will have most lines start at 700am the first day of a trip. So much for commuting in on the same day to work!!!:confused:

Actually, I believe "commuters" are the ones that was the impetus of the NPRM

You're right we should stick with the status quo because it protects us so well......:rolleyes: Reduced rest anyone?

Im just saying that the new NPRM doesnt address commuting, but I think this does it in an indirect way.

I don't know of many commuters these days that have ANY commutable trips anyways (someone please correct me if I'm wrong).

What? Why? How does that help? If a trip starts at 7 am, the latest it could run under the new rules would be 8pm.

I don't really see any radical changes for domestic part 121 operations. Just a massage of some of the most egregious conditions allowed.

about 75% of PSA CLT pairings are commutable on both ends.

7am starts thats crazy late if you work for an RAH carrier!

Hmmm...don't think I held a commutable trip on the front-end EVER. The suck would just continue under the NPRM ;)

Even under the current rules a trip that starts at 1:00 PM or later probably isn't going to have a duty period of more than 10-11 hours on day 1. So if a company is already building pairings that are front-end commutable under the existing rules, I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work under the new rules.