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Old 10th Jan 2008, 19:27
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Kamelchaser
 
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Some brief statistics on this little gem of a pattern;

In the 59:45 hrs TAFB, you'll be flying 55% of that time.
Total time in IAH is 24hrs:30 mins.
With travel, and no doubt the regular delays, you'll be lucky to have 20hrs in the hotel.

Supposedly there will be three days off afterwards, but my concern is the fatigue levels throughout the whole crew on the return sector, not how many days off you get after the near accident.

At what point do AAR and TC stop taking the p#*s and start taking safety seriously? I guess next it'll be LA with 12 hrs in the hotel.

No doubt the only way to deal with this is the obligatory ASRs until the company is forced to react to it (bit like the MRU ASRs; "the FRMC is monitoring the situation, and will ignore it for as long as possible")
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