Unions join forces against V Australia: maximum duty hour limitations

[Blair M]

The V Australia crew are some of the lowest paid and work some of the longest single duty periods in the local industry.

Good on them.

[Andre H]

Very interesting, but what are the flight duty limitations in australia ?

[D Chan]

http://www.casa.gov.au/download/orders/cao48/4800.pdf

[Andre H]

There ist no word about flight time, duty time, wocl, proceedings, captains decision...

In europe we have EU-OPS ( and "subpart Q" for flight and duty time limitations and rest requirements ) for all european airlines.

[D Chan]

mmm correct me if I am wrong, but the CAO48 only specifies the hours that can't be exceeded from a regulatory or safety perspective, and I think the individual EBAs negotiated between individual airlines and unions spells out all the finer details.

[Adam G]

CAO48.1 only covers flight crew not cabin crew - there are no CASA regulations regarding cabin crew flight/duty times in Australia.

Also CAO48.1 is not relevent for a number of operators as they work on approved fatigue management systems.

The relevent EBA's, contracts, work rules etc of airlines normally detail flight/duty time limitations in conjunction with the approved fatigue management system (or CAO48.1) and the relevent federal awards.

[Andre H]

That´s bad, we have nearly the same conditions for cabin and flight crews and thank you for the CAO48.1 hint.