EASA FTLs
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Sorry JP, I didn't make myself clear.
What I meant was ...'Not much of a lookin - as to the negotiation and setting of EASA FTLs.'
You are quite correct to say that each airline is at liberty to negotiate with its pilots (or vice versa) as to any lesser ‘industrial’ limits - and quite right too, especially for the Delta example you quote.
The bloke in my pub who claims to be a BA pilot, says BA Longhaul currently works to negotiated ‘industrial’ limits, but BA Shorthaul for some reason already works to EASA limits.
In euro-management-speak, 'limit' seems to be synonymous with 'goal' and the result seems to be permanent exhaustion under their new rostering system.
Don’t ask me why, or if he's correct. We just buy him beer to listen to his flying stories.
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