Flip Flop Flyer et al...
put yourself into this context
You work a whole month more or less 6 days on 2 off...
You may have a family at home, who you don't see very often, especially when you are (as a shorthaul pilot-) very often away 4-5 nights in a row(longer if you are longhaul).
You spend up to 12 hours a day locked in a 6'x6' box with one other bod who you may or may not get on with...
Your only communication with the outside world is on the r/t or the cabin interphone.
When you get down route you are rostered minimum legal rest period at least 50% of the time.
You very often don't get the time that most other people get in order to run the rest of their lives.....
You don't get the opportunity to 'pop' to the bank during your lunch hour etc..
Being able to do the sorts of things that everybody else in the modern western world gets to do during their time off is not alot to ask is it...
When you can no longer finish you day's work and go and socialise, and imbibe in say,...2 glasses of beer if you wish to, because the regulations would make you a criminal, is a bit sodding harsh isn't it......??
Maybe the new BA pilots' uniform should consist of sackcloth robes, and we should all shave our heads....because we are going to end up living as Monks at this rate....
Quality of life and rest periods down route are the major issues involved here.........Lower levels of stress and fatigue would have a far greater benefit to flightsafety than setting limits on alcohol so low they are only just measurable....as seems to be the case here.....