3MTA3,
Check your JAR ops manual - section Q, Flight Time Limitations - Intentionally Left Blank. There has been a draft proposal for Europe wide rules, but nothing is in the JAR manual yet. Sooner the better! At the moment every one uses their own rules - hence mass confusion.
And yes, when you have delays, FDPs get extended. Hence the use of Commander's Discretion. But this is only if the Captain agrees, and I myself have never put pressure on a Captain to agree, and would support one who said no. Maybe that rules me out of a job as an AAI station manager?
Anyway, commercial putting pressure on pilots to meet unrealistic schedules - is this really a problem specific to Air Atlanta?
c