Will, I sympathise with you if the rule has affected you, but only so much. The question of fairness in any business in the ME is irrelevant. At EK a few guys get together once a week in a plush office and decide the rules, do you think any of them stop and say, "hang on a minute, that rule will be a bit unfair to FO Will Rogers, lets not do it"? No shareholders, no board of directors or onions to answer to. Not the same as the airlines around the world you refer to. Its what gives them the edge. And we have to realise that the process will involve shaftings from time to time. In 2000 GF went swimming with a 320 and for a brief period, in response to it, required hrs for command at EK went to 9000. And it wasn't even our accident... Reactions to incidents have and will continue at EK just as they will also continue to defy reason. Yet when guys arrive and their conditions change, its described as "unfair" and "absolutely ridiculous" . In truth they are, but they are also absolutely predictable. Buyer beware.