Originally Posted by
Capn Rex Havoc
I never was good with my north and Souths - .... We are a long way from a landing spot when we fly past Santa and that limitation has never been brought up before.
It would seem your strength is in acknowledging your weakness. Maybe you should pull out a world atlas or look at a wall map. Transposing SYD-JNB in the northern hemisphere (similar latitudes and route distance) is the same as San Diego USA to Tripoli (Libya) with the only alternate along the way being somewhere in Florida (equivalent of Perth, West Australia). That could be why you never think of cargo fire limitation. 65S 070E is the best part of 3000nm from an airport.
Put it another way, 3000nm from Santa Land is the Mediteranean or Central US or the "Stans". That is a really long way with nothing in between.
And finally, cargo fire suppression is one of the fundamentals of EDTO (ETOPS) along with separate maintenance for critical systems etc.