Originally Posted by
hunterboy
I think the UK FTL’s were good for the UK. They may not have worked for, say Greece on a different time zone and less long haul and trans Atlantic flts. However, the one size fits all EASA regs may have improved the EU FTL’s’s on average, but it has dragged some countries FTL’s down to the average as well as raising some others. I realised we were doomed when I spoke to the EU’s raconteur for EASA (a Labour MEP) and basically got the cold shoulder and was told to my face that I didn’t know what I was talking about, as he had an ex BASSA rep on the payroll as his personal advisor and she told him all he needed to know about pilot and cabin crew fatigue.