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New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday restored a rather strenuous duty roster of 1992 that requires pilots to undertake up to three fights within their nine-hour daily duty schedule.
A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan restored the 1992 duty roster for pilots, suspending a Bombay High Court order which had July 1 implemented a duty roster requiring pilots to undertake only two flights during their daily duty schedule before earning a rest period of six hours.
The new relaxed duty schedule for pilots, involving a maximum of two takeoffs and two landings within nine hours, was chalked out by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in 2007 after a mandatory consultation on the issues like flight safety norms and crew fatigues.
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