Originally Posted by
Capt Fathom
And in what year is that going to start?
They'll probably need more crew as they all succumb to exhaustion!
Indeed. Seen a dummy pattern to !ondon. 23 hour Tour of Duty departing at 8pm. Night the entire way. Crews will then Land Eleven hours out of time zone in one hit. No stopovers either way to rest.
Even if you can sleep in you’ll have been up all day prior just to make it more dangerous and extreme.
Noticeably different from an early AM departure like Los Angeles, Santiago, JoBerg, Asia etc etc.
If you woke up at 8am which would be conservative it will be 45 hours since a crew member had a proper sleep in a normal bed free from noise, turbulence and galley noise.
From the Paper.
In its most detailed comments on ultra-long-range flying, Qantas said the aircraft makers Boeing and Airbus had made “really good progress” on an ambitious set of flights dubbed “Project Sunrise”, ready for take-off in 2022.
Similarly, he said the ultra-long-range model “could be a good aircraft, if the product and the price is right”, to replace the double-decker Airbus A380s