The computer says "yes!"
The latest stunt from one loco is start at 0500 fly two sectors then five hours split duty rest in the crew room ( effectively an office with crews coming and going) then another two and a half hour sector followed by returning to base on the aircraft as a passenger.
Total duty time 19 hours !
It is my opinion that the management are not usually this unreasonable but the pressures of fast expansion, the squeeze of the rapidly approaching pilot shortage and a crewing department that is under staffed results in the rostering computer producing rosters that are legal but take no account of the fact that humans are not machines. It is the classic case of the unmonitored computer saying "yes".
The root cause of this problem lies with EASA who introduced FTL rules that like most of the rubbish that comes from the lumanaries of Cologne is ill conceived and driven by those who's nine to five office routine in a public service environment makes them unfit to regulate a 24 hour a day safety critical industry because of their remoteness from it.
It has taken the the tragic deaths of those on the German wings Airbus for EASA to wake up to fact there is a problem but will they have the perceptiveness and integrity to know they have only to look in the mirror to see the organisation who's lamentable lack foresight and appropriate legislation is the root cause of the problem.