The bottom line is that the CAA have provided a guideline that is totally and utterly ignored. What do they do about it as regulators.................................................. .......................nothing.
The regulators become more and more important in todays world of commercial pressure but the CAA are completely useless in this regard. Just take a look at how they deal with routes that have constant discretion reports, they do.......................................................... ..............................nothing
The operators include the 90 min rule in they OPS manuals ( because its a guideline) and what do they do to those that blatantly ignore this........................................................ ....nothing.
The pax get on board a plane that has two pilots flying the last sector of a multi sector day, 11hrs after they reported for duty and 16hrs after they both started their journey to work. They have had no rest at all during these 16hrs. Tiredness leads to mistakes, sometimes quite unbelieveable mistakes. The aircraft tries to take off without flap. What do the passengers do.......................................................... .............mostly they all die.
In the court room your widow and kids get to see the CAA take the stand.
"Not our fault we issued specific guidance on how long people should travel before they report for work"
Then the company get on the stand and make the same observation. "Not our fault either, its written in black and white how much time it should take our pilots to get to work"
Then the insurance companies and lawyers and relatives of the dead start taking everything that you ever had, including your reputation.
The saddest thing is that nobody is really interested in stopping people from being killed. They are only interested in not getting blamed for it.
It's time the regulators started acting like regulators and not some pseudo-legal, pass the buck club.