It maybe legal but is it safe?
As we saw with the recent white out conditions in JFK, a layover was legally reduced to 12 hours in the hotel. Exceptional weather conditions I will admit but this highlighted that the ULR regulations are not even worth the paper they are written on.
With IAH, the company is turning its back on a paper trail that colleagues have generated highlighting that 24 hours is insufficient and it is clear that the paper trail that was created, did not carry enough weight to prevent this change. More ASRs and FRMS forms will in my view, be futile. Will DFW be next?