I did have some concrete news when I made my brief post but decided to wait until I had seen it in black and white.
Firstly PaulDeGearup and beaver eager are correct in mentioning the new CAA interest in the topic.
The last few months have shown a consistent new tenor amongst the CAA contacts we meet. Flight Ops as well as SRG are becoming much more proactive on many fronts. It's naive to believe crew will ever be anything other than cynical about them and their actions there has been a very refreshing change of mood.
Privately they've fired some very uncomfortable shots across the bows of companies. Additionally they've warned operators that they are carefully monitoring the proportion of simulator training and testing done during back of the clock time slots.
While the CAA have been taking an active interest in the administative week the first move has actually been a negotiated one between pilots and management at KLM/Buzz.
Manuals have now been revised to switch to a rolling week and the next rostering period will mark the transition to the new system. Cabin crew await news as to whether their negotions on terms and conditions will include the same provisions.
As other correspondents observe computer based rostering systems retain all the historical data to demonstrate exactly what has been going on and the coding to maintain and record administrative week limits is actually more complex to achieve than rolling ones.
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[This message has been edited by PPRuNe Towers (edited 12 April 2001).]