Its not the amount of hours that we fly necessarily, it is the type of hours i.e. in the middle of the night after being delayed at home for 3 hours, you plan your rest based on your duty but then end up flying a lot longer into the night/ morning......seeing the sun come up when you did not plan too....zzzzzzzzzzzz! To say that there is more efficient rostering....what a load of bo###cks, the airlines, especially short haul, are so up against it with low seat yields they try to squeeze 26 hours flying into a 24 hour day which does not work and you end up with delayed flights, delayed crews working further into the night getting more fatigued etc etc and so on!
The Airline management and CAA will only take note when there is a serious accident its only a matter of time. Flight time limitations is an out of date document, the CAA need to move with the times!!