The 80 hrs/month figure is really more related to pay. Pilots and cabin crew typically are only paid for the time the door is closed on the aircraft. Real hours

The 80 hrs/month figure is really more related to pay. Pilots and cabin crew typically are only paid for the time the door is closed on the aircraft. Real hours spent at work and away from home are far greater. I think measuring by days away from home is a more accurate description of how much flight crew work. It depends a lot on where one works and the type of flying they’re doing but it ranges from 12-18 days/month of being on the road working. Flight benefits vary as well but they’re almost always space available and with load factors in the US creeping upwards the value in those benefits has slowly been eroding away. Hard to plan a vacation when you have almost no idea when you’ll get there.