There are three elements to this:
- Flight Time Limitations, which provide the legal minimum rest allowed. This is affected by duty length, in flight rest, number of sectors, and acclimatisation (ie. adjusting to time zone differences). https://www.caa.co.uk/Commercial-ind...and-resources/
- Union agreements, which will usually exceed legal minimum requirements.
- Schedule, which sometimes results in some rather nice extended layovers (pre-covid at BACF we had some trips which resulted in entire days off down route which is fairly unusual for short haul!). Ideally of course any airline will want to minimise layover time without generating fatigue reports.
Last edited by EJetter; Apr 2, 2021 at 2:25 pm