I'm on your side dude...You may want to tone it down a bit...
I was pointing out the hypocrisy on the "safety nazi" arguments for tighter rules...If you are going to argue safety, then you need to be consistent....Many aren't consistent in their arguments...
Why don't you want more time at home? Isn't that your point?
Whoooaaa there Joe...let me get this right: you are accusing anyone who doesn't agree with your priorities in scheduling of being a 'safety nazi'?
(Are the people who pushed for overwing emergency exit doors 'safety nazis'? Are the people who pushed for aircraft weather radar 'safety nazis'? How about the folks who pushed for auto-feathering props? Are they 'safety nazis' too? In fact, all of these things increase costs and decrease the airline's bottom line, thereby having 'unintended consequences'. By your logic, these technologies decrease airline profitability and therefore hurt your earnings potential and your quality of life. Would you lobby for the removal of these technologies from modern transport category aircraft? Really? Now maybe we should talk about being consistent...)
And then you introduce the concept of hypocrisy?
After making this statement:
I am a commuter...I'm talking "SAFETY"...Isn't that what everyone is crying about now? I don't want the rules to change at all....Just warning people of the "law of unintended consequences".
You simply can't get any more hypocritical than that. Let's face some facts here, Joe. You clearly don't give a d@mn about fatigue related safety issues. What you are concerned about is your schedule and your quality of life that you have attained by virtue of your seniority. You don't want the rules to change at all because you are, probably correctly, concerned that your quality of life or earnings will take a hit.
Frankly, TFB.
You have the schedule that you have because the company builds some lines that allow for adequate rest, these would be the lines that you are senior enough to hold, and builds other lines that do not allow for adequate rest, which the rest of us get. Stated another way, you enjoy the opportunity to hold a schedule that works for you at the cost of your coworkers inability to hold a schedule that realistically addresses fatigue issues.
Fatige is a serious threat to the safety of airline transportation. This has been shown multiple time well prior to the tragic Colgan accident. To attempt to stonewall meaningful progress on this clear and present threat to the safety of airline operations becasue of perceived decreases to your personal quality of life or earnings is shameful and incredibly selfish.