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The bill quickly standardizes duty/rest limits to reduce fatigue and improve safety in cargo aviation, but it creates compliance costs and operational disruption and limits public input by accelerating and exempting the rulemaking process.
All-cargo flightcrew members, passengers, and shippers will face lower fatigue-related risk because cargo flightcrews must follow the same duty/rest limits as passenger flightcrews, improving safety in cargo air operations.
Cargo operations and their workers will get safety protections faster because the rule must be implemented on an accelerated (30-day) timeline.
Air carriers and cargo crews will face higher compliance costs and scheduling disruptions to meet passenger-equivalent duty/rest limits, which may raise operational costs and affect workers' schedules.
Carriers and crews may experience rushed operational disruptions because the 30-day deadline can force rapid changes to schedules and procedures during implementation.
State governments, transportation stakeholders, and crews will have reduced opportunity for public input and oversight because the change is exempted from notice-and-comment rulemaking.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires FAA to apply passenger flightcrew duty and rest requirements to all-cargo flightcrew within 30 days, bypassing notice-and-comment rulemaking.
Official title: To require the Secretary of Transportation to modify the final rule relating to flightcrew member duty and rest requirements for passenger operations of air carriers to apply to all-cargo operations of air carriers, and for other purposes.
Introduced February 12, 2026 by Salud Carbajal · Last progress February 12, 2026
Requires the Secretary of Transportation to change the FAA's existing flightcrew duty and rest rule so the same duty and rest requirements that apply to passenger flightcrews also apply to flightcrews in all-cargo operations. The Secretary must complete the amendment within 30 days of enactment and may finalize the change without following the usual notice-and-comment rulemaking process.