Small Cog
Perhaps I and the other pilots who worked for a small company in Scotland must have imagined doing 900 hour each year. Day - night flying week about too. Oh, and we didn't have autopilots and we often operated single crew 8 sectors days too.
Yes, I was there. Same routine. Remember being told to keep a record of my hours in pencil NOT pen until the end of the month, then to "tidy them up"! Also remember some pilots being taken off the line because they had exceeded the 900 hr limit. 100 hrs in 28 days was also a problem.
Now I bore young FOs with "tales of daring do" from the past and can see they have grown up in a totally different environment.
(Once nearly tried licking the runway in the frozen North but it was covered in ice...)
The Daily Mail article is unusually factual and addresses issues which unfortunately our MEPs could not (or would not) understand.