Comrade Che',
Lest the one-sector pilots get any benefits, the 12 hour rule has now been extended to them as well, for the night departures.
Am given to understand that this prescription to impaired performance leading to fatigue (and reduced flight safety) has apparently been made by the custodians of the regulations, themselves, i.e. the Bahrain CAA. They certainly know more than those that made the CAP 371!!!!!
With an absence of a Safety board like the NTSB, an intelligent crew union, and self-conscience, the airline and the regulator have colluded to make ridiculous legislations.
The airline now tends to exploit these draconian rules to the hilt; they must, to prove their efficiency. The checks and balances have all been eroded - an impotent safety/quality department, and ignorant fleet managers, who were conspicuously absent when the new rules were launched.
I hope it is not Goof(ed) Air again.