Commercial Fixed Wing
Flight Attendant Current
Communication Breakdown; Fatigue
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Company Policy; Procedure; Human Factors
Crew Scheduling manipulated block time of trip [out of] JFK in order to have myself and [coworker] work over our 16 hours after sitting in JFK for over 5 hours waiting for aircraft to arrive. I contacted Scheduling we saw that we would reach our 26 hour mark. At that time; I was informed that we were at 15:43 hours. Flight was delayed another 40 minutes; but they then shortened the block from 2:31 to 2:10 and had us arriving even earlier with a later departure time. We were on hold with Scheduling when they called me asking if I wanted to go over 16 hours; I responded no. I find this a safety issue; we were definitely fatigued and they were trying to push us past the limit.
CRJ Flight Attendant reported the company manipulated block time to remain within the required work period.