Oh and let's also look on the bright side of the latest wet dreams of this fumes, errrr fuel/carbon footprint madness: imagine all those extra block hours and how quickly you will reach those 900 hours! On top of that, imagine the effect it will have on OTP and therefore (the already closely planned) the max daily duty limit. Lemme guess: going into discretion seems will be the only 'authority' that will stay in place for a while...
I guess then next move will be to increase our annual maximum to 1000 hours and perhaps do away with alternate fuel or a further reduction of contingency fuel. Big Brother, in his cozy office, is already checking the weather and NOTAMS in those trip envelops to see whether those 500kg extra for TS's were really justified or not. All in the name of "safety?" Who needs fuel anyways?
How low can you go?
