Aviation Groups Ask FAA To Settle One Rest Rule For Crews, Not Many

Aviation groups are pressing the FAA to set a single federal standard for how long flightcrews may work and when they must eat and rest. The push targets the patchwork nature of current requirements, asking Washington to assert clear federal authority over duty and rest rules rather than leave crews and operators navigating rules that differ by jurisdiction. For owners running under Part 91K or Part 135, crew scheduling has long meant reconciling federal duty-time limits with rules imposed elsewhere — a uniform standard would remove that reconciliation entirely. The groups have not detailed what the standard should specify, only that the FAA should be the one to set it.

With reporting from AVweb.