Caractacus
The impact of the proposed changes will affect short haul scheduled carriers most as they are the ones most likely to operate consecutive earlys.The report by the way was done by KLM UK
The UK Airlines took the hit when CAP371 was introduced so its just another restriction which our EU colleagues will laugh at....
Hopefully roll on EU FTL to put it back on a level playing field, or somewhere better than today.
The movement from "fixed" to rolling weeks will hurt the occasional charter carrier.
One of the changes was that Crews night stopping in the Continent will keep their max allowable fdp based on UK local time for the first night as the crews don't have time to re-acclimatise and hotac sleep is poor compared to home. However, why just earlys.
2 possible examples.
1. Crew on min rest between night flights
(plenty of those on freighters day stopping in Europe). Most of these stops are less than 12 hours so even less time to re-acclimatise.
2. Even more debatable. Crews to USA on a late flight from UK so crews take rest in local time and arrive USA when its dark, again min min rest.Why not-acclimatised?
Crew should stay acclimatised to UK time??
The CAA need to think thru the implications of one change.