Hello and welcome to episode 184 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenic here, as always with...

Jason Rabinowitz and Ian welcome to what is sure to be at least our 184th best episode yet.

I firmly believe we can get this episode in the top 100. the We have a great interview with Michael Carroll's later in the show who is a dispatcher for a large legacy airline somewhere in the United States and we have a great conversation with him about what it is to be a dispatcher

and some of the things that get him going into work in the morning and keep him up at night.

So stick around for that later in the show.

We begin the show with a bunch of FAA-centric news

that deals with rules about flight attendants, some letters that the FAA has sent to Boeing,

and some good news for Malaysia, and we'll go with the flight attendants first.

So the new rule that the FAA has finally finalized,

I guess is a way of saying.

Yes, they have now finalized rules that are based on the law Congress passed in 2018.

It was not put into effect.

There were two public comment periods in 2019 and 2021 and finally they have published the final rule which will change the rest periods for flight attendance increasing that rest period to 10 hours.

It was previously at 9 and then it was able to be modified slightly downward depending on the situation.

This creates a hard and fast rule for 10 hours of rest in between shifts. So this puts the flight attendants now in line with

pilots across the board within the United States. That's good news as we all know

flight attendants are there primarily for the safety of the passengers on board so they should probably have as much rest as anyone else working on that aircraft.

This is not something that comes as a surprise to the airline history.

Like we said, this was first legislated in 2018

and is only finally being enacted now.

And most airlines, I'm sure at least one of which we know is Delta,

who is not a unionized airline but wanted to keep their

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