Crew rest area
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In civil aviation, a crew rest area is a rest area for flight personnel in passenger aircraft . Rest areas are necessary on long-haul flights as the duration of intercontinental flights can easily exceed the permitted working hours for the flight crew . For this reason, both pilots and flight attendants must be able to rest during the flight in order to comply with labor law provisions and to prevent fatigue (maintaining ability to work).
The execution of the quiet zones depends on the type of aircraft and the airline. A distinction is made between crew rest areas and crew rest compartments (CRC).
Crew rest areas for pilots consist of a group of seats in business class that can be separated with a curtain. This seating area is often located in the middle or at the starboard-side, rear end of the business cabin.
Crew rest compartments are necessary for long-haul flights with an extremely long flight duration (e.g. over 18 hours for the Singapore - New York route ) because these flights are flown by two crews. In order to guarantee sufficient recovery for the crew, higher demands are usually placed on crew rest compartments in terms of sound insulation than on the normal aircraft cabin. The cockpit and cabin crew often have separate compartments, either as separate compartments in a CRC or as separate pilot rest compartments and crew rest compartments . Crew rest compartments are installed at different locations in the aircraft:
- In the normal cabin, here usually in the rear cabin area or directly behind the cockpit (e.g. the pilot rest compartment in the A380 )
- As part of the so-called Lower Deck Facilities , i.e. permanently installed fixtures below the passenger cabin.
- As a so-called Dock-On Crew Rest Compartment . With this variant, a crew rest compartment can be installed in the cargo hold if the aircraft is not always in long-haul operation.
- A so-called MCR - “Mobile Crew Rest” container can also be inserted into most wide-body aircraft. This can be accessed from above through a flap in the floor of the passenger deck.
