Nigelondraft makes a good point. The phrase "should consider" is about as useful as a chocolate teapot. Pilots can just easily say "I did consider getting accomadation near the airport but decided against it"!!!
This gets right to the heart of the debate. I hate to have really proscriptive rules, who is to say that a 95 min journey is much more tiring than a 85 min journey, however we are talking about guys who regularly travel much, much more than this. BA knows it is going on, indeed some our managers in SH are the worst offenders, but just keep turning a blind eye to what is an increasing problem. The CAA is the regulator but seems to be next to useless these days. Eventually there will be a major hull loss attributed to an error that was caused by fatigue. When the investigation reveals that both the pilots had been travelling for 3 hours before reporting for an 11 hr day then it will become compulsory to live an hour from your regular place of work. Or BA (and the CAA) could make enforce the spirit of legislation and protect the travelling public. The trouble is the guy in BA who would have to signal the changes lives in Newcastle. His home base is LHR.