Recently, it turned out that another drawback concerning ATR and Airbus is, that there is no limit of the flight hours in the contract. The block hours are significantly increasing since a couple of months and 100 hours block per month on the Airbus and 80 hours on the ATR are not seldom. On top of this the amount of overnights is going up. Most of the legs are short and last for 30 min to less than two hours. In the raining season which starts now this is not any more fun in the sun...