Norwegian Overtime rules ...

[LongQ]

... and the Laws of unintended consequences.

Astonishing.

http://www.france24.com/en/20121101-norwegian-plan...

[davepoth]

LongQ said:

... and the Laws of unintended consequences.

Astonishing.

http://www.france24.com/en/20121101-norwegian-plan...

Not so surprising really. The surprising thing is that they didn't know the situation before they took off.

[Mr_B]

Sounds more like pilots working hours rather than overtime. Much the same with any truck driver in the UK, they are limited by driving hours and rest periods.
Have a feeling the story uses the term overtime to make it more of a story than it really is.

[LongQ]

davepoth said:

LongQ said:

... and the Laws of unintended consequences.

Astonishing.

http://www.france24.com/en/20121101-norwegian-plan...

Not so surprising really. The surprising thing is that they didn't know the situation before they took off.

Indeed but it's still somewhat strange. This is, after all, an internal flight over a fairly short distance. One might have expected a little flexibility to be available especially as they were already in the descent. Still, I suppose on balance inconveniencing 40 passengers for the sake of the other 200 to come was a value call for someone.

[LongQ]

Mr_B said:

Sounds more like pilots working hours rather than overtime. Much the same with any truck driver in the UK, they are limited by driving hours and rest periods.
Have a feeling the story uses the term overtime to make it more of a story than it really is.

Yep, though it may have lost something in what I would guess is a bit of a translation chain from the original Norwegian.

[davepoth]

LongQ said:

Indeed but it's still somewhat strange. This is, after all, an internal flight over a fairly short distance. One might have expected a little flexibility to be available especially as they were already in the descent. Still, I suppose on balance inconveniencing 40 passengers for the sake of the other 200 to come was a value call for someone.

We don't know the full story - possibly a member of staff called in sick and left the plane understaffed for the return leg. That would have left it out of position for the whole next day of flights. Ideally they would (and usually do) cancel a flight like this before it took off.