Flight regulation inquiry
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From: São Paulo - Brazil
Flight regulation inquiry
Hello everyone, i'm a flight attendant in a major airline in Brazil and i would like to ask your help in my research about how airlines around the world manage both pilots and cabin crew's hours of flight, sectors by day etc etc.
My intention is to get those informations comparing with how airlines do it here in Brazil e then try to get attention from our politician's about it.
Well you may asking why right?
In Brazil only one law regulates how all airlines have to manage pilots and cabincrew flight hours, sectors by day, rest hours, off days etc.
That law dates from 1984 and it never has been changed since that year.
Our regulation really dont reach what is done by most of the airlines around the world(that's what i heard and want to confirm those informations), for example 8 days off a month and doesn't matter if you fly a narrow or a wide body. Airlines can give us more days off but they usualy dont. Our regulation allows things like 6 days of flight 1 day off and another 6 days of flight wich is really exhausting, allows night after night after night flying from 22:00 PM to 7:00 AM wich is exhausting to.
Now we are in serious trouble since a brazilian senator is trying to change our regulation (in an airline lobby i believe) giving us more days off (12 at least) wich is great BUT in the other hand he's trying to change our sectors by day limit (today we can do generaly 6 sectors a day flying a narrow body like 737's)to a no limit sectors by day. And he's trying to remove our rest before day off begins also. He is also trying to increase our limit of flight hours by day, month and year. As an example widebody crews in a major airline here have exactly the same 8 days off with a lots of stand-by and reserve days.
Airlines think that we dont have ANY social life. 22 days out of home by month, that's sounds unfair to me.
I appreciate very much any information and help and apologize in advance for any english mistake.
My intention is to get those informations comparing with how airlines do it here in Brazil e then try to get attention from our politician's about it.
Well you may asking why right?
In Brazil only one law regulates how all airlines have to manage pilots and cabincrew flight hours, sectors by day, rest hours, off days etc.
That law dates from 1984 and it never has been changed since that year.
Our regulation really dont reach what is done by most of the airlines around the world(that's what i heard and want to confirm those informations), for example 8 days off a month and doesn't matter if you fly a narrow or a wide body. Airlines can give us more days off but they usualy dont. Our regulation allows things like 6 days of flight 1 day off and another 6 days of flight wich is really exhausting, allows night after night after night flying from 22:00 PM to 7:00 AM wich is exhausting to.
Now we are in serious trouble since a brazilian senator is trying to change our regulation (in an airline lobby i believe) giving us more days off (12 at least) wich is great BUT in the other hand he's trying to change our sectors by day limit (today we can do generaly 6 sectors a day flying a narrow body like 737's)to a no limit sectors by day. And he's trying to remove our rest before day off begins also. He is also trying to increase our limit of flight hours by day, month and year. As an example widebody crews in a major airline here have exactly the same 8 days off with a lots of stand-by and reserve days.
Airlines think that we dont have ANY social life. 22 days out of home by month, that's sounds unfair to me.
I appreciate very much any information and help and apologize in advance for any english mistake.
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The "Rules" in the UK are currently based on Civil Aviation Publication No. 371, Known as "CAP 371". Put CAP 371 into Google and you should find it. Section C' gives examples of Schemes which are the basis for entries in company Operations Manuals.
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BRCC, the rules that govern work and rest times where I work, are too complicated to post here.
If you are a member of a union in Brazil, your union is most likely a member of the ITF.
Via the ITF, your union can easily take contact with other member unions world wide to find out about the various rules in various countries. And the answers will be more comprehensive than anything you get here.
Good luck; it´s a fight worth fighting.
If you are a member of a union in Brazil, your union is most likely a member of the ITF.
Via the ITF, your union can easily take contact with other member unions world wide to find out about the various rules in various countries. And the answers will be more comprehensive than anything you get here.
Good luck; it´s a fight worth fighting.
