Part 117 vs. BID2606 · MIA 757/767

MIA 757/767: 24 of 50 lines pass.

Bid period 2606 (06 Sep – 01 Nov 2026), domicile MIA (Miami, FL). Every line and every pairing evaluated against 14 CFR Part 117 as written — every pairing is a 2-pilot crew. Method, assumptions, and the other domiciles are on the hub page.

What this is — and is not. Part 117 does not currently apply to all-cargo operations; they fly under the older Part 121 Subpart Q/R/S limits and their collective bargaining agreements. Nothing on this page says any carrier is violating any regulation — every schedule analyzed here is legal as published under the rules that actually govern it. This is an independent what-if: if the cargo carve-out were removed tomorrow, how much of the bid period would survive? Congress is currently considering exactly that question (H.R. 7526, the Safe Skies Act; H.R. 7191, the Fatigued Pilot Protection Act). This analysis is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced for the FAA, any carrier, or any union.

24 of 50

lines with times pass Part 117 as built

122 of 188

pairings are legal on their own; 2 more only with sleep-room rest

pairings would have to be rebuilt before any line containing them could be legal

§117.27

the dominant failing rule in this pack

The mechanism

Why pairings fail here.

66 of 188 pairings fail Part 117 on their own. Counts below are pairings touched by each rule.

Rule	Pairings	What it limits
§117.27	58	More than 3 consecutive night duty periods infringing the 0200–0559 circadian low without a qualifying reset.
§117.27*	2	A 4–5-night run legal only if the carrier scheduled ≥2 h of sleep-room rest during each night duty — the sits are long enough, but provision is not in the bid data.
§117.13 Table B	5	Scheduled flight duty period exceeds the Table B maximum for its report time and segment count (2-pilot).
§117.23(c)(1)	3	More than 60 flight-duty-period hours in any 168 consecutive hours.

The verdicts

Every line with times.

CT = credit time per pay period · DO = days off · FDPs = flight duty periods · Night run = longest run of consecutive duty periods infringing the window of circadian low.

Line	Type	CT PP1 / PP2	DO	Trips	FDPs	Night run	Verdict	Failing rule · pairings
1	Flying	69:48 / 76:12	15+15	5	18	5	Fail	§117.27 0025, 0033, 0043, 0083
2	Flying	67:40 / 70:17	15+16	4	16	5	Fail	§117.27 0076, 0054, 0052
3	Flying	71:52 / 74:05	14+15	4	16	4	Fail	§117.27 0039, 0074, 0056 · §117.27* 0068
4	Flying	67:28 / 76:07	15+14	4	17	5	Fail	§117.27 0075, 0088, 0030
5	Flying	69:40 / 71:00	15+15	4	17	4	Fail	§117.27 0045, 0049, 0040
6	Flying	68:57 / 74:00	15+15	4	17	4	Fail	§117.27 0036, 0069, 0063
7	Flying	68:06 / 73:35	15+15	4	17	5	Fail	§117.27 0079, 0061, 0067
8	Flying	69:04 / 74:44	15+15	4	17	5	Fail	§117.27 0041, 0048, 0038, 0080
9	Flying	70:13 / 80:55	14+14	4	19	5	Fail	§117.27 0031, 0090
10	Flying	70:56 / 73:51	16+14	4	16	4	Fail	§117.27 0064, 0046, 0071, 0055 · §117.13 Table B 0064
11	Flying	66:20 / 78:12	16+15	4	19	5	Fail	§117.27 0058, 0029, 0062, 0085
12	Flying	73:50 / 75:30	15+14	4	17	5	Fail	§117.27 0073, 0082, 0034
13	Flying	75:00 / 76:04	15+15	4	18	5	Fail	§117.27 0078, 0047, 0044, 0081
14	Flying	72:09 / 78:03	15+15	4	17	5	Fail	§117.27 0032, 0042, 0089 · §117.27* 0072
15	Flying	71:08 / 75:40	15+15	4	18	5	Fail	§117.27 0027, 0086, 0060, 0077
16	Flying	71:23 / 77:23	16+14	4	18	5	Fail	§117.27 0028, 0084, 0087, 0051
17	Flying	69:33 / 73:32	15+14	4	19	5	Fail	§117.27 0037, 0059, 0070, 0057
18	Flying	76:42 / 75:14	14+14	6	21	1	Pass	—
19	Flying	76:20 / 82:55	14+14	5	24	0	Fail	§117.23(c)(1) - (line-caused)
20	Flying	85:39 / 85:44	13+12	5	24	0	Pass	—
21	Flying	75:24 / 84:57	15+12	5	23	1	Pass	—
22	Flying	76:54 / 78:58	14+14	5	22	1	Fail	§117.13 Table B 0124
23	Flying	75:14 / 84:33	15+13	5	24	1	Fail	§117.13 Table B 0141 · §117.25(b) 0140×5 (line-caused) · §117.23(c)(1) - (line-caused)
24	Flying	74:18 / 83:56	15+12	5	23	0	Fail	§117.13 Table B 0126
25	Flying	75:26 / 84:38	15+13	5	25	0	Pass	—
26	Flying	77:06 / 78:59	15+14	4	21	1	Fail	§117.23(c)(1) - (line-caused)
27	Flying	76:05 / 82:59	15+12	5	21	0	Pass	—
28	Flying	74:25 / 80:29	15+12	5	18	0	Pass	—
29	Flying	73:57 / 79:20	15+14	8	17	2	Pass	—
30	Flying	78:38 / 75:02	15+13	6	15	2	Pass	—
31	Flying	73:57 / 74:01	13+15	10	16	2	Pass	—
32	Flying	75:03 / 78:38	16+15	11	18	1	Pass	—
33	Flying	74:09 / 78:47	13+15	11	21	1	Pass	—
34	Flying	85:43 / 85:39	13+13	4	16	1	Pass	—
35	Flying	80:09 / 75:19	14+14	10	19	1	Pass	—
36	Flying	78:08 / 77:59	14+14	8	19	1	Pass	—
37	Flying	74:33 / 78:56	14+14	9	19	1	Pass	—
38	Flying	76:49 / 75:52	15+15	9	19	1	Fail	§117.13 Table B 0098
39	Flying	76:32 / 80:34	14+14	9	21	1	Pass	—
40	Flying	75:32 / 81:29	15+12	8	18	1	Pass	—
41	Flying	80:17 / 77:51	11+14	13	20	1	Pass	—
42	Flying	76:13 / 76:31	13+13	12	22	3	Fail	§117.25(b) 0155×2 (line-caused)
43	Flying	75:52 / 80:08	12+13	13	22	3	Pass	—
44	Flying	76:23 / 76:35	13+12	13	23	1	Pass	—
45	Flying	76:59 / 77:59	11+12	14	28	3	Fail	§117.25(b) 0155×2 (line-caused), 0017 (line-caused)
46	Flying	74:56 / 74:50	12+12	13	24	3	Pass	—
47	Flying	71:04 / 75:57	14+11	14	24	1	Pass	—
48	Flying	73:56 / 73:32	13+13	15	25	3	Fail	§117.25(b) 0155×2 (line-caused)
49	Flying	75:11 / 81:18	14+12	9	17	1	Pass	—
50	Flying	0:00 / 79:38	0+11	8	14	1	Pass	—

Reading the failures. Numbers such as 0281 are pairing (trip) identifiers in the pack. Sleep-room means the line is legal only if the carrier schedules ≥2 h suitable-accommodation rest during each consecutive night duty (§117.27's 5-night option). Line-caused failures come from how trips were placed on the line and could be fixed by line construction; all others are inherent in the pairing itself.

Line types with no times attached (RSSC ×3, RSSD ×7, RSVC ×11, RSVD ×8, VOR ×3, VTO ×4 — 36 lines) are excluded throughout: they carry no evaluable assignments.

The rest of the bid period

Six more domiciles, one method.

The hub page carries the cross-domicile comparison, the full method, and every interpretation the evaluator uses.

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