Yeah, this is horrible.
*sigh*
Don't know how other companies are operating, but lineholders at my company have been - largely - working contract minimum days off anyway...however, the pairings have been such garbage (re: The Company builds the pairings).
Four day trip with 23-24 hours of credit. Two of the three overnights are already scheduled below 9 hours, if not even 8 hours and 3 minutes for legal sake. One operational hic-cup and you're down to minimum rest anyway - delaying the next OPERATIONAL DAY due to our crew planner's sole desire to maximize COST SAVINGS over PRODUCTIVITY.
So, I'm sorry...
I'm sorry that we can't trust our employers to actually NOT schedule 8 hour minimum rest periods. Which, an accident we had in a Brasilia in Brunswick GA over a decade and a half ago, our scheduling practices (scheduled 8 hour overnights) were spotlighted by the NTSB as being counter-safe practices.
So, yeah...this is horrible. It's an improvement, or will be, to those of us already working at minimum days off contractually. But, I think all of us know it will be a far better improvement than just simply that. However, that would require us to be a bit more disingenuous than we currently are. Which really gets to what I was saying earlier.
One single rule (this) will not drastically change our landscape.
We also need to evaluate how our respective crew planners BUILD our pairings and lines. We also need to hold our contract writers accountable regarding scheduling, hours of service, deadhead, and travel expenses sections of our contracts.
Now, regardless of this FT/DT rule...nothing will stop the number of Age 65 retirees going out of Scottsdale, AZ to play golf in the next few years.
I don't recall so many of you folks upset about Delta's latest fleet rejuvenation - replacing high paying wide-body seats with narrow-body seats, surely at a reduction in pay.
The jobs will be there folks. However, crew augmentation is this century's crew complement. Once again, this gets back to your negotiators and speaking up and loudly about what it is that you and your fellow pilots desire.
Or...sit still and expect your folks to just guess about what is important to you.
). For a lot of operators (like Delta) they already had things like 8 hours behind the door at a hotel or a higher limit on min overnights. For the majors, I don't see things changing a whole lot other than schedules being adjusted a bit for some show/release times that may affect duty limits. There's a carve out for FedEx and other cargo only operators, so they have to "opt in" to the new rules for them to be affected. There's a provision to go around the "circadian low" as long as there is proper rest between FDPs. If you're doing high speeds, that's there during the day. Probably the same with red eyes at places like jetBlue or Delta. What actually HELPS the majors is the flight time increase to 9 hours during the day with appropriate show and release times. This allows some to do trans-con turns where they would have been over the 8 hour limit before. 
