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(a) A certificate holder may assign a flight crewmember and a flight
crewmember may accept an assignment for flight time only when the applicable
requirements of Secs. 135.263 through 135.271 are met.
(b) No certificate holder may assign any flight crewmember to any duty with
the certificate holder during any required rest period.
(c) Time spent in transportation, not local in character, that a
certificate holder requires of a flight crewmember and provides to transport
the crewmember to an airport at which he is to serve on a flight as a
crewmember, or from an airport at which he was relieved from duty to return
to his home station, is not considered part of a rest period.
(d) A flight crewmember is not considered to be assigned flight time in
excess of flight time limitations if the flights to which he is assigned
normally terminate within the limitations, but due to circumstances beyond
the control of the certificate holder or flight crewmember (such as adverse
weather conditions), are not at the time of departure expected to reach their
destination within the planned flight time.
(a) No certificate holder may assign any flight crewmember, and no flight
crewmember may accept an assignment, for flight time as a member of a one- or
two-pilot crew if that crewmember's total flight time in all commercial
flying will exceed--
(1) 500 hours in any calendar quarter.
(2) 800 hours in any two consecutive calendar quarters.
(3) 1,400 hours in any calendar year.
(b) Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, during any 24
consecutive hours the total flight time of the assigned flight when added to
any other commercial flying by that flight crewmember may not exceed--
(1) 8 hours for a flight crew consisting of one pilot; or
(2) 10 hours for a flight crew consisting of two pilots qualified under
this Part for the operation being conducted.
(c) A flight crewmember's flight time may exceed the flight time limits of
paragraph (b) of this section if the assigned flight time occurs during a
regularly assigned duty period of no more than 14 hours and--
(1) If this duty period is immediately preceded by and followed by a
required rest period of at least 10 consecutive hours of rest;
(2) If flight time is assigned during this period, that total flight time
when added to any other commercial flying by the flight crewmember may not
exceed--
(i) 8 hours for a flight crew consisting of one pilot; or
(ii) 10 hours for a flight crew consisting of two pilots; and
(3) If the combined duty and rest periods equal 24 hours.
(d) Each assignment under paragraph (b) of this section must provide for at
least 10 consecutive hours of rest during the 24-hour period that precedes
the planned completion time of the assignment.
(e) When a flight crewmember has exceeded the daily flight time limitations
in this section, because of circumstances beyond the control of the
certificate holder or flight crewmember (such as adverse weather conditions),
that flight crewmember must have a rest period before being assigned or
accepting an assignment for flight time of at least--
(1) 11 consecutive hours of rest if the flight time limitation is exceeded
by not more than 30 minutes;
(2) 12 consecutive hours of rest if the flight time limitation is exceeded
by more than 30 minutes, but not more than 60 minutes; and
(3) 16 consecutive hours of rest if the flight time limitation is exceeded
by more than 60 minutes.
(f) The certificate holder must provide each flight crewmember at least 13
rest periods of at least 24 consecutive hours each in each calendar quarter.
(a) For purposes of this section--
Calendar day means the period of elapsed time, using Coordinated Universal
Time or local time, that begins at midnight and ends 24 hours later at the
next midnight.
Duty period means the period of elapsed time between reporting for an
assignment involving flight time and release from that assignment by the
certificate holder. The time is calculated using either Coordinated Universal
Time or local time to reflect the total elapsed time.
Flight attendant means an individual, other than a flight crewmember, who
is assigned by the certificate holder, in accordance with the required
minimum crew complement under the certificate holder's operations
specifications or in addition to that minimum complement, to duty in an
aircraft during flight time and whose duties include but are not necessarily
limited to cabin-safety-related responsibilities.
Rest period means the period free of all responsibility for work or duty
should the occasion arise.
(b) Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, a certificate
holder may assign a duty period to a flight attendant only when the
applicable duty period limitations and rest requirements of this paragraph
are met.
(1) Except as provided in paragraphs (b)(4), (b)(5), and (b)(6) of this
section, no certificate holder may assign a flight attendant to a scheduled
duty period of more than 14 hours.
(2) Except as provided in paragraph (b)(3) of this section, a flight
attendant scheduled to a duty period of 14 hours or less as provided under
paragraph (b)(1) of this section must be given a scheduled rest period of at
least 9 consecutive hours. This rest period must occur between the completion
of the scheduled duty period and the commencement of the subsequent duty
period.
(3) The rest period required under paragraph (b)(2) of this section may be
scheduled or reduced to 8 consecutive hours if the flight attendant is
provided a subsequent rest period of at least 10 consecutive hours; this
subsequent rest period must be scheduled to begin no later than 24 hours
after the beginning of the reduced rest period and must occur between the
completion of the scheduled duty period and the commencement of the
subsequent duty period.
(4) A certificate holder may assign a flight attendant to a scheduled duty
period of more than 14 hours, but no more than 16 hours, if the certificate
holder has assigned to the flight or flights in that duty period at least one
flight attendant in addition to the minimum flight attendant complement
required for the flight or flights in that duty period under the certificate
holder's operations specifications.
(5) A certificate holder may assign a flight attendant to a scheduled duty
period of more than 16 hours, but no more than 18 hours, if the certificate
holder has assigned to the flight or flights in that duty period at least two
flight attendants in addition to the minimum flight attendant complement
required for the flight or flights in that duty period under the certificate
holder's operations specifications.
(6) A certificate holder may assign a flight attendant to a scheduled duty
period of more than 18 hours, but no more than 20 hours, if the scheduled
duty period includes one or more flights that land or take off outside the 48
contiguous states and the District of Columbia, and if the certificate holder
has assigned to the flight or flights in that duty period at least three
flight attendants in addition to the minimum flight attendant complement
required for the flight or flights in that duty period under the certificate
holder's operations specifications.
(7) Except as provided in paragraph (b)(8) of this section, a flight
attendant scheduled to a duty period of more than 14 hours but no more than
20 hours, as provided in paragraphs (b)(4), (b)(5), and (b)(6) of this
section, must be given a scheduled rest period of at least 12 consecutive
hours. This rest period must occur between the completion of the scheduled
duty period and the commencement of the subsequent duty period.
(8) The rest period required under paragraph (b)(7) of this section may be
scheduled or reduced to 10 consecutive hours if the flight attendant is
provided a subsequent rest period of at least 14 consecutive hours; this
subsequent rest period must be scheduled to begin no later than 24 hours
after the beginning of the reduced rest period and must occur between the
completion of the scheduled duty period and the commencement of the
subsequent duty period.
(9) Notwithstanding paragraphs (b)(4), (b)(5), and (b)(6) of this section,
if a certificate holder elects to reduce the rest period to 10 hours as
authorized by paragraph (b)(8) of this section, the certificate holder may
not schedule a flight attendant for a duty period of more than 14 hours
during the 24-hour period commencing after the beginning of the reduced rest
period.
(10) No certificate holder may assign a flight attendant any duty period
with the certificate holder unless the flight attendant has had at least the
minimum rest required under this section.
(11) No certificate holder may assign a flight attendant to perform any
duty with the certificate holder during any required rest period.
(12) Time spent in transportation, not local in character, that a
certificate holder requires of a flight attendant and provides to transport
the flight attendant to an airport at which that flight attendant is to serve
on a flight as a crewmember, or from an airport at which the flight attendant
was relieved from duty to return to the flight attendant's home station, is
not considered part of a rest period.
(13) Each certificate holder must relieve each flight attendant engaged in
air transportation from all further duty for at least 24 consecutive hours
during any 7 consecutive calendar days.
(14) A flight attendant is not considered to be scheduled for duty in
excess of duty period limitations if the flights to which the flight
attendant is assigned are scheduled and normally terminate within the
limitations but due to circumstances beyond the control of the certificate
holder (such as adverse weather conditions) are not at the time of departure
expected to reach their destination within the scheduled time.
(c) Notwithstanding paragraph (b) of this section, a certificate holder may
apply the flight crewmember flight time and duty limitations and rest
requirements of this part to flight attendants for all operations conducted
under this part provided that--
(1) The certificate holder establishes written procedures that--
(i) Apply to all flight attendants used in the certificate holder's
operation;
(ii) Include the flight crewmember requirements contained in subpart F of
this part, as appropriate to the operation being conducted, except that rest
facilities on board the aircraft are not required; and
(iii) Include provisions to add one flight attendant to the minimum flight
attendant complement for each flight crewmember who is in excess of the
minimum number required in the aircraft type certificate data sheet and who
is assigned to the aircraft under the provisions of subpart F of this part,
as applicable.
(iv) Are approved by the Administrator and described or referenced in the
certificate holder's operations specifications; and
(2) Whenever the Administrator finds that revisions are necessary for the
continued adequacy of duty period limitation and rest requirement procedures
that are required by paragraph (c)(1) of this section and that had been
granted final approval, the certificate holder must, after notification by
the Administrator, make any changes in the procedures that are found
necessary by the Administrator. Within 30 days after the certificate holder
receives such notice, it may file a petition to reconsider the notice with
the certificate-holding district office. The filing of a petition to
reconsider stays the notice, pending decision by the Administrator. However,
if the Administrator finds that there is an emergency that requires immediate
action in the interest of safety, the Administrator may, upon a statement of
the reasons, require a change effective without stay. Index
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