The proposed EASA Flight Time Limitations are, or should be of concern to all of us: Flight Crew, Cabin Crew and Passengers. Essentially the document that controls the legal limitations on Flight Time and Duty is CAP371. All duty rigs of UK based airlines are based on this document. CAP371 is the product of years of scientific research and has its roots in the Bader Committee of the 1970s. The idea behind the EASA regulations is to bring all the countries of Europe into line, the same regulations would apply to all the EASA countries. So the smart thing to do would have been to take the best, safest regulatory environment and extend it to EASA. Instead the euro politicians have created a mish-mash set of regulations based on NO scientific input, rather the input of the airlines and whatever compromises they decided was convenient. IF these regulations go through unchanged then safety will be compromised. The Colgan Air crash in Buffalo and several other incidents have put the spotlight on crew fatigue and its dangerous repercussions. The FAA are tightening up the regulations with regard to fatigue, Euro politicians are happy to let safety be significantly eroded.