Aquí habría que revisar las condiciones de trabajo de interjet, volaris, etc, etc.
Deveras estarán apegadas a lo que se establece en la ley federal del trabajo, o estarán las autoridades (¿?) de acuerdo en que se violen. Es pregunta
O ¿habría que hacerles una auditoría para saber si cumplen o no?
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ATA: Airlines would cut 26,700 jobs if FAA implements new pilot rest regulations
By Aaron Karp | September 19, 2011
The US Air Transport Assn. (ATA) said an analysis by consultancy Oliver Wyman demonstrates that the pilot fatigue and duty time rules FAA is proposing to implement would "have severe negative effects on US airline employment … while reducing service, especially to small communities."
In a letter sent last week to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which is conducting a final review of the pilot fatigue regulations proposed last year by FAA (ATW Daily News, Sept. 13, 2010), ATA VP and general counsel David Berg cautioned that "the proposed rule would cause … approximately 26,700 direct airline and air cargo carrier job losses."
Under the proposed rule, pilots would be required to have "nine hours for the opportunity to rest" before reporting for flight duty, and the clock would not start ticking until he or she is "behind closed doors" in a hotel or other designated rest place, according to FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt. Regulations currently require flight crew members to have a minimum of 8 hr. of rest time between flight duty periods. However, the rules do not define rest time, meaning transit time from an airport to a hotel may count as rest time.
"If it takes two hours to get to the hotel, you still get nine hours," he emphasized at a press conference last year after FAA issued the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on pilot fatigue and duty time.
This and other provisions "will drive job loss because airlines will not be able to raise prices sufficiently to meet the new costs that the rule imposes because of consumer price sensitivity," Berg wrote to OMB. "This situation will force airlines to cut capacity, in particular service to marginally profitable and unprofitable routes—many of them serving small and rural communities that depend on air transportation to connect to the rest of the country and world. Reducing capacity and service means fewer employees."
Oliver Wyman said its analysis showed that the new regulations would add $1.96 billion a year in total costs for US mainline passenger and cargo airlines. The analysis placed "specific focus on the cost of requiring additional pilots to conduct the same amount of flying and on the operational impacts of the rule," the consultancy said.
"This substantial increase in costs was estimated to lead to the elimination of marginal flights that no longer met individual airline minimum profitability thresholds. Overall employment reductions required to operate the reduced number of flights were then estimated."
Deveras estarán apegadas a lo que se establece en la ley federal del trabajo, o estarán las autoridades (¿?) de acuerdo en que se violen. Es pregunta
O ¿habría que hacerles una auditoría para saber si cumplen o no?
ATW Home » International Aviation & Regulation »
ATA: Airlines would cut 26,700 jobs if FAA implements new pilot rest regulations
By Aaron Karp | September 19, 2011
The US Air Transport Assn. (ATA) said an analysis by consultancy Oliver Wyman demonstrates that the pilot fatigue and duty time rules FAA is proposing to implement would "have severe negative effects on US airline employment … while reducing service, especially to small communities."
In a letter sent last week to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which is conducting a final review of the pilot fatigue regulations proposed last year by FAA (ATW Daily News, Sept. 13, 2010), ATA VP and general counsel David Berg cautioned that "the proposed rule would cause … approximately 26,700 direct airline and air cargo carrier job losses."
Under the proposed rule, pilots would be required to have "nine hours for the opportunity to rest" before reporting for flight duty, and the clock would not start ticking until he or she is "behind closed doors" in a hotel or other designated rest place, according to FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt. Regulations currently require flight crew members to have a minimum of 8 hr. of rest time between flight duty periods. However, the rules do not define rest time, meaning transit time from an airport to a hotel may count as rest time.
"If it takes two hours to get to the hotel, you still get nine hours," he emphasized at a press conference last year after FAA issued the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on pilot fatigue and duty time.
This and other provisions "will drive job loss because airlines will not be able to raise prices sufficiently to meet the new costs that the rule imposes because of consumer price sensitivity," Berg wrote to OMB. "This situation will force airlines to cut capacity, in particular service to marginally profitable and unprofitable routes—many of them serving small and rural communities that depend on air transportation to connect to the rest of the country and world. Reducing capacity and service means fewer employees."
Oliver Wyman said its analysis showed that the new regulations would add $1.96 billion a year in total costs for US mainline passenger and cargo airlines. The analysis placed "specific focus on the cost of requiring additional pilots to conduct the same amount of flying and on the operational impacts of the rule," the consultancy said.
"This substantial increase in costs was estimated to lead to the elimination of marginal flights that no longer met individual airline minimum profitability thresholds. Overall employment reductions required to operate the reduced number of flights were then estimated."
