The legal flight time limitations/ CAD371 clearly state:
3.6 Factors to be considered when constructing crew rosters should include:
3.6.1 The undesirability of alternating day/night duties.
3.6.2 Avoiding scheduling rest periods of between 18 and 30 hours, except when rest is physiologically based.
3.6.3 The effect of consecutive flights through, or ending within, the window of circadian low.
3.6.4 The effect of consecutive transmeridian flights ensuring that sufficient rest, and where applicable sufficient physiological rest, is provided.
3.6.5 The notification of crews well in advance of days off.
The company not only avoids complying with this, it actively seeks to achieve the above points consistently in the name of productivity. Their response is, but it does not say we "shall not", only says "should avoid", therefore not a requirement.
Ha! Never has there been a more flagrant abuse of the intent of the paragraph. Yet in the name of commercial pressure, and prodctivity, the company deems that it is entirely acceptable to do it. And then they question why we are fatigued.
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