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Old 19th Dec 2016, 08:00
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TOGA Thrust
 
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Harry check your facts:

Duty time in 28 days did indeed drop. But think of it, its almost impossible to do 200 hours in 28 days. That is a whole week of hours (40) more than the average joe in an office is required to work, and that person at least has a routine and is not working at all hours of day or night across multiple time zones.

What was limiting them was the 14 day limit of 105 which they have INCREASED to 115. Basically a 10% increase! Why do this? Simple, for the same reason they stopped days off after leave for pilots: They plan to make them work their leave back by compressing duty into the remaining days in the month, and the only way to do that is to increase the duty time. Flying is not an issue.

Poor cabin crew don't even know this has happened. Hardly notified and few avenues for formal comment. No one has even provided a basis or justification for increasing Duty Time by a full 10%.

Assuming they get only 2 days off in 14 (where most office workers here get 4 or 2 weekends), the CC will have to work almost 10 hours a day every day, at any time, on any clock.

Brings on visions of sweatshops for poor women in Victorian London.....
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