Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 300; Flight Crew Total 15000; Flight Crew Type 5000
Other / Unknown
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Company Policy; Manuals; Human Factors
Company is applying flight time restrictions wrongly to exceed the flight time of their crews who fly to the U.S. As example; a flight ZZZZ to ZZZ is around 14 hours block time; 4 crew flights. They don't compute the time in the rest (bunk) towards the total flight time; so they only log 7 hrs each way. Crews are flying more than 130 hrs a month and logging less than 100 hours; all this with the consent of the Foreign Civil Aviation Authority. With more than 100 flights to U.S. each week this is a huge safety threat to all. On top of that the rest are they getting in some U.S. destinations after these long flights is less than 24 hrs in the rest facility (hotel). For obvious reasons this cannot be raised to Company or Foreign Civil Aviation Authority.
An Air Carrier pilot reported a foreign air carrier does not include crew rest time during flights as flight time and is not complying with FAR's regarding crew rest after long overseas flights.