White House budget office is slowing rule on pilot fatigue

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Douglas

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The president's Office of Management and Budget reportedly is delaying new rules on pilot fatigue, arguing that stricter limits on flying time would raise airlines' costs by billions of dollars without a significant increase in safety. OMB's dispute with the FAA could make it impossible to publish a final rule before the fall, sources say
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I was wondering where they were on the fatigue issue and this article seems seems is answer it.
 
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Every thing in aviation is expense, apparently sleep is too.
 
what do pilot rest rules have to do with the whitehouse budget office anyway?

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SIUav8er said:
what do pilot rest rules have to do with the whitehouse budget office anyway?

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that's what I was about to say- the budget office thing, not the nexusonetaptalk thing
 
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what do pilot rest rules have to do with the whitehouse budget office anyway?

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More rest time = having to hire more pilots to fill in those times = airlines wanting more money I guess? Somewhere in there is a connection..I think..

Not sure how the white house budget office determines how the airlines spend money..
 
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Just an UNeducated guess....

If the airlines were all required to enact a new pilot fatigue rule, wouldn't this have to apply to all the airlines?

If so....I would imagine that all airlines would increase their cost of airfares to compensate for the increase in employees. I know it's much more complicated than just raising airfare, but it makes sense. If I have to pay 500 more pilots to get the same job done, I'm going to increase my prices to pay for that. That way, I'm not losing 'billions' of dollars.
 
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I don't think what I'd like to post would fair well with the filter. So the short version is this is crap. I guess no one in the White house cares about saftey. How much more blood will have to be spilled. Fairs are too low as it is right now. A fare increase would do some good IMHO. Make airtravel what it should be, resonable, not cheap. To bad the flying public just, or government, doesn't get it.
 
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It would certainly cause the price to operate EAS routes to increase, costing the gov more money.
 
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