I do confirm the above and I'm not a person who is reliable as I just started working Long Haul, but Long Haul hasn't changed for the last 40 years. It's not like the world just started implementing time zones and different weather and atc. Fair enough, we fly more which exposes us more to these factors but saying that waking up in a hotel in the night and sleeping in the day while watching foreign tv is not different from 35 years ago. The difference is perhaps that we have our smartphone and Skype calls to keep us company. Long haul is long haul, if you don't like this life don't start. EK/QR/KLM/LT/AF and so on have exactly the same effect on long haul. EK just flies more, but the hotels and the experience will not differ.