The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is proposing to require flight attendants receive at least 10 hours of rest time between shifts after Congress had directed the action in 2018, according to a document released on Thursday.
, United Airlines and others, had previously estimated the rule would cost its members $786 million over 10 years for the 66% of U.S. flight attendants its members employ, resulting from things like unpaid idle time away from home and schedule disruptions.
"Flight attendants serve hundreds of millions of passengers on close to 10 million flights annually in the United States," the FAA said, adding that they "perform safety and security functions while on duty in addition to serving customers." After the FAA published an advance notice of the planned rules in 2019, Delta announce it would mandate the 10-hour rest requirement by February 2020.
Attorneys at the FAA "need a little poke" to move faster on rules when ordered by Congress, DeFazio said on Thursday at the hearing. "Do not screw around with it for three years... you just do it."
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