It is a piece of work designed to provide airlines with safe minimum guidelines not as a roster plan for crew , but that has been lost in the mists of time. Continuous working to cap371 will wear you out and you will really have to love your job to stick at for more than a few years. Most short haul crew in the UK are working to it or damn close. Once one airline adopts it as the way to roster crew then its pretty hard for competitors to reject. The pages relevent to crew are not that long 10 at the most, so its worth a read. You might be surprised at how many hours you can work and how little you actually do, particularly from stand bys. You can be on an early stand by, get called and work til the middle of the night if crewing work it right.
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