Big Tudor,
And I guess that 1500 hrs includes time spent at home on standby, time spent in transport between stations?
You guessed incorrectly.
If you are going to frequent a pilots' forum and malign the salaries paid to those pilots, kindly learn the differences between the various duties and how they're calculated.
Wirbelsturm alluded to some of the misrepresentation of the figures but there are plenty of others.
So if pilots are being paid peanuts what are the rest of us surviving on?
Maybe try asking that on a forum for those employed in the same job as you.
Does nothing of the sort. What the Chinese regulators are saying is nothing more than a slap on the wrists for offenders. Blatant FTL busts will be punished by a ban on buying new aircraft! What sort of regulation is that?
If you're running an airline, where are you more likely to 'offend', in China where you're going to receive a tangible punishment or EASAVille etc, where you truly will get a slap on the wrist with no punishment? Given the manner in which many of the Chinese airlines are expanding, a 3 month ban on introducing new aircraft would result in a quite significant restriction.