The 'issue' has been around for donkeys years.The EU Transport commissioner has promissed the solution years ago.If one asks her(via the web) one gets passed to another beaurocrat who never replies.The state limits are hurrendous in Italy(applied by the 'privats') and the AL I fly for is starting to operate scheduled flts Italy-UK in codeshare with Alitalia so pax with Alitalia tickets may find themselves onboard non-Alitalia Airbus flown by the pilots who have been awake for 20 hrs or so.I hope BBC jumps on the issue or UK leaves EU.