Well the U.S. Press has been reporting this week about the lack of rest for the Cogan crew involved in the tragic BUF crash . If the travelling public is confronted with the facts about crew fatigue and made to feel scared then the FAA and others will have to do something.
Don't hold your breath. There have been accidents before, and the FAA has done nothing (Little Rock, Lexington etc.)! At the end they'd have to admit that they had been wrong. What do you expect from (mainly) bureaucrats that think all day about going home at 15.00?
Try to explain fatigue to them, I bet they are fully able to relay this feeling.
But the Feds will say, you can always call in fatigued and this is their get-out-of-jail free card! When do you start realising that you're fatigued? Usually, when you start screwing up somehow.
The only thing the Feds will do is posing restrictions on commuting which will make QOL for many pilots much worse than it is these days.
Ooops, sorry, it's 15:00 and I am off home ....
