LONDON, England, Airline pilots and cabin crew across Europe are holding demonstrations Monday to complaint over rules governing their flying hours which they say are putting the lives of passengers at risk.
Organized by the European Cockpit Association (ECA), and the European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF), protesters are demanding that European Union rules on flying times are brought into line with technical evidence.
The Moebus Report - mandated by the EU in September 2008 , recommends that an airline crew should not function for more than 13 hours during the day and 10 hours at night.
Current EU rules stipulate pilots work up to a maximum of 14 hours during the day and nearly 12 hours at night.
Speaking from one of the protests outside the European Parliament in Brussels, Captain Martin Chalk, President of the ECA told CNN: "At the moment, the EU level is not sufficient. That's not our view that is the view of experts employed to review the EU's own level of security."
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Organized by the European Cockpit Association (ECA), and the European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF), protesters are demanding that European Union rules on flying times are brought into line with technical evidence.
The Moebus Report - mandated by the EU in September 2008 , recommends that an airline crew should not function for more than 13 hours during the day and 10 hours at night.
Current EU rules stipulate pilots work up to a maximum of 14 hours during the day and nearly 12 hours at night.
Speaking from one of the protests outside the European Parliament in Brussels, Captain Martin Chalk, President of the ECA told CNN: "At the moment, the EU level is not sufficient. That's not our view that is the view of experts employed to review the EU's own level of security."
useful links: transport rankings
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