Originally Posted by
JAARule
Has that happened to you?
The difference might be the attitude the DECs arrive with. If the trainee puts in the effort and continues after check to line, it is different to, but no more difficult than, medium haul. Millions of pilots do it successfully and easily. It's not difficult. The hard parts are staying awake and dealing for hours and hours with some of the numpties they're now hiring.
It hasn't happened to me. But coworkers have gone into small towns and been stuck for several days.
In Europe and the U.S. the tough decision to make if both engines fail at cruise is to choose which airport you want to attempt your dead stick into. Long haul international to Asia is often a multi hour diversion into an airport that you never want to go to.
Wide body flying isn't that different versus n/b flying but the regions they fly in can be significantly different.