The 12 hours rest before a Mid made it very difficult for us to staff the overnight shift when anybody who bid it was on vacation. It’s hard because in the FAA they want you working something like a 6am-2pm and then coming back to work the overnight shift 1030pm-630am. Needing 12 hours before that 1030pm shift really blew up our lines for this year.
All the rest stuff is just a facade in my view. There is no honest conversation regarding rest and fatigue when you are scheduling people 6 days a week for a decade, and then trying to counsel them on using Sick leave on their 6th day too often. It’s just a joke.
Best example of this I can think of is that we have a few people doing a 4-10 hour shift schedule for “fatigue mitigation”. The FAA is then scheduling these people OT on 2 of the 3 off days, and in many times giving them a quick turn for it. Imagine you’re off Friday Sat Sun, and then they give you a 1300-2100 OT on Friday, followed by a 0700-1500 OT on Saturday. Every. Week.
That’s reality in the FAA this year on a “fatigue mitigation” schedule lmao. It’s not a serious agency and it’s run by people that could not care less about safety or the people who are actually running the operation.
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