"The nightmare continues"
Indeed Ryanair "persuaded the IAA" that rather than doing the accustomed thing and interpreting the 900 hour limit as a rolling one over any 12 month period, they should instead run it from 1st April to 1st April, thereby conveniently resetting the clock to zero in time for the spring increase in work, which seems to be the current trend (no doubt due to the high leisure flying content of the customer base).
So, courtesy of that "interpretation" of JAROPS, one could of course complete 100hrs /month in the 6mth leading up to 01/04 & then another 600 after 1st April and achieve 1200hrs in a 12 mth rolling period whilst remaining (well for the IAA at least
) "legal".
In practice, this has happened (or certainly very close to it ) in the past, but is most unlikely to happen again following the recent trend to "encourage" taking of annual leave during the winter months , combined with "awarding" everyone a period of 1wk - 1 mth of unpaid leave during the dark months. And of course, as the date chosen is 1 April, it can not happen at a more "productive" time of the year, but I am sure someone in an office in the whitehouse is beavering away trying to earn a bonus by coming up with another "cunning plan"
