I'm not so sure. I fear future lawsuits and NTSB recommendations are going to tighten the definition of "rest" so that commuting from well outside of your base becomes disallowed.

I hope you're right. But how you rest is up to us right now. With this change, how we rest must include 8 uninterrupted hours of sleep opportunity.

It's going to depend on interpretation. As rest is interpreted now, it happens BEFORE duty, not AFTER duty. The devil is in the details.

All that would do is drive it underground. DAL pilots would be riding JBLU jumpseats and JBLU pilots would be riding DAL jumpseats... the paperwork would never catch up to you... No way is the gubbamint competent enough to track all that.

Forcing pilot to live in base. That would cost airlines money, and i believe by these rules its proof the airlines are more powerful then govt. And they sure as he'll whoop Alpas assets in strength.

Hate to break it to you but UPS has been tracking its crew-members and their CASS requests for a few years now ...

So at home my 3 yr old wakes me uo, on a plane with plugs in and sleeping more rest. I think u read to much in this

You sure do make commuting sound easy. I take what I can get.

So if a UPS pilot rides on DAL, UPS knows about it? That is interesting. Of course the gubbamint would have to get that information from UPS... and correlate it with flights that the pilot in question had flown.. and then decide if there was anything that they could/would/should do about it. I think the ensuing paperwork and manpower required to the FAA would cause a lot of cholesterol in their already braindead system. But I could be wrong. It IS interesting though..

I don't think its that hard to track but even if it was, this isn't about safety its about liability. If anything happens, they will pull out all the stops and get records of your commute on any airline, cell phone call/text/tower ping data, time of facebook activity, ez-pass time stamps, credit card runs, anything and everything to place the blame on you. Then they act all high and mighty to the press and regulators while saying "gee, we insured this valueable crewmember got ample legal rest opportunity they must be a rule breaking maverick".

It could be automated, but even if its not the paperwork is still there and can be gather easilly regardless of expense or manpower in the event of an accident. Even if it cost them a million man hours that's a bargain to them if it helps blame the pilot after the fact.