ACMI
Regarding tenancy of Tracy Island, I'm going to leave this to the landlord Jeff tracy.
I agree wholeheartedly with what you say but to put your posting into context with the thread, there are no regulations at present limiting the number of hours that can be worked. I chose to offer up various shift patterns 8 12 and 12 and 10. The work force was mostly young so the 12 got the vote. Their choice and it saved me having to interview loads of wannabes and saved the company a few bob too.
The exciting part of what you say would be the imposition of working hours regulations upon operations staff by JAA / CAA. As you rightly point out the FAA limit the working day / night for an aircraft dispatcher to 10 hours. Most flag and domestic carriers work 8 with 2 hours for overtime contingencies. This is the way we should be going.
I am getting a little long in the tooth now and the thought of having to work a twelve hour night fills me with dread, but that's an age problem. Your right though, it's not desirable from either view point.
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