Controlled Rest.
Long 2 sector days i.e. 2 x 6 hrs =12hrs flight time. The big boys have a heavy crew and bunks for that kind of duty. It's a farce, and I wonder what the pax will think of it.
It suggests fatigue fighting measures such as exercise. Has any of these muppets been in a B737 cockpit?
It is an acknowledgement that duty times, because of better endurance from modern a/c, have been extended over the years for short-haul ops perhaps beyond what is wise. You can't put the genie back in the bottle, so here is quick fix. With all the chat about giving you 20mins to wake up etc. makes it sound as if this has been a scientific study. AGH!
Trying to sleep in an average Boeing seat in a small cockpit with little recline will give you a cricked back in no time. Make you worse off.
It really is the lunatics in charge of the asylum. Glad it is a thing of my past. Relate this to the thread about the modern day job and if it's worth it anymore.