Uplinker:
at least 11 hours rest every day - you can reduce this to 9 hours rest 3 times in a week
Just in case you think this rule is harsh on truck drivers, it is not. It is made for drivers who sleep in the cab, or pull up at a roadside truck-stop where the bedroom is 10 meters from the truck. And having done this, I can honestly say you are fully rested after 9 hours. You have 8 hours asleep in the cab and one hour in the cafe having breakfast and brushing your teeth - and off you go.
It is not the same in commercial aviation.
At the end of a duty pilots have to walk 2 km through the airport because
walking is cheaper, fight their way through security, immigration, and customs; wait 45 minutes for the
cheaper taxi to arrive, drive 45 minutes to a
cheaper hotel; wait an hour for the
cheaper room to be made ready; wash, eat and rest - and then fight your way through all that again in reverse order to get back to the
cheaper aircraft.
AND DO ALL THIS WITHIN a 10 or 11 hour REST PERIOD.
Its not fun. It is not professional. And it is not safe.