Just so you understand what you are talking about, Airlines do their planning and scheduling according to the rules, they never plan to exceed duty times or rest times it would create to many problems and cost too much to do this. Very rarely crews will break the rules for whatever reason of their own but NEVER at the request of the Airline, the safety implications are too important to play with. The beginning of this thread has to do with the evolution of crew rest, crew complement for long flights, number of legs and duty times and says that all changes for the better in Canada had to be fought for to get changed by the crews themselves, and Canada is still behind the majority to this day.
Pilots fought for change in the MOT rules about crew rest and duty days and are still fighting through their associations and unions because they are below the standards of most other countries. Air Canada follows the rules as they are and would follow them if they were changed.
Something sort of like this happened to me a long time ago on a short icy runway, and after my boss was asking me how much reverse I was using when I got very close to the end, the answer was don't know except there was a lot of noisy popping and banging. LOL
Canada has the slackest crew rest regulations in the western world. And every minute of crew rest has had to be fought for by pilots over the years. And the fight goes on for airlines and even bush pilots.
The Captain is in charge of his plane no matter what the controller will tell you. He of course must advise ATC of his decision as soon as he can and they will respond with an alternate action to take.
The problems facing safety have crept up in aviation in the last 30 years or so and are getting worse, 1. pilots do not look out the window anymore, 2. pilots do not hand fly airplanes anymore, 3. pilots do what they are told by a multitude of people from management to air traffic control and everyone else. The system gives them responsibility only when there is a problem.
The simple reason why airlines are cancelling orders for the Max is that the passengers have lost confidence in the Max and Boeing itself. WestJet is committed to the 737Max and other models like the Ng that have similar problems like the electrical wiring bundle problem.
