The CAA working time Directive that was adopted from the EU Working Time Directive and came into force last April 2004.
Basically says that, The Max Flight Time Hours remain the same at, 900 a year ( Rolling)
And Max Duty Hours are 2000 a year ( Rolling)
This new 2000 hour limit equates to about 39 hour a week or about 154 hours a month, total duty and not just Flight Time duty.
There are Severe Penalties for those enforcing employees to work more than this, including Prison Sentencing!
Vicarious Libility anyone?
It is very difficult to see how the Airlines, especially FlyBe, are going to do this without massive recruitment.
It would seem that the powers that be are very aware of this, which is why they are trying to Con us into giving up our 8 days off in Lieu; that way they can redistribute our days off to make it all legal and without having to give us the days anyway, which is what they would have to do if no one accepted the the terms of the recent Poll that was sent out.
You would do well to bear in mind that although it only appears to be 8 days you are giving up, it is actually 12.
From the 8 doils you would normally take a block of 5, which would attract an extra 2 wraparound days either side of the 5 day block. 12 days is nearly 2 weeks. Do you really want to give up those 12 days?
I Don't
