ICYMI: 10 Hours Rest Implementation is Finally Moving After Years of Obstruction
October 22, 2021 – Our 10 hours rest is moving. Flight Attendant fatigue is real. COVID has only exacerbated the safety gap with long duty days, short night, and combative conditions on planes.
Congress mandated 10 hours irreducible rest in October 2018, but the prior administration put the rule on a process to kill it.
DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg put our 10 hours back on track, and after internal review with the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), where our union met to press the urgency and facts about implementation at some AFA airlines, the agency sent their review back to FAA over a month before the deadline. The minute it hit FAA Administrator Steve Dickson’s desk last night he signed the order for a notice of our rule on rest. The rulemaking process now requires a comment period for 60 days, then the FAA will move to implement the final rule. Read more >
Related News
- U.S. FAA seeks new minimum rest periods for flight attendants between shifts, Reuters
- An Extra Hour of Rest for U.S. Flight Attendants Under FAA Plan, Bloomberg
- The FAA wants to give flight attendants mandatory 10 hours of rest between shifts amid nationwide burnout and staffing challenges, Business Insider
