Originally Posted by
Global Aviator
Why reinvent the wheel? Singapore Airlines A340-500 did it for years and now as you know the A350’s do it.
Ok it’s not 20/21 hours but is blighty close.
The Singapore aviation authority is different to Aussliland with duty, however it is done with how many crews? Used to know a few guys in the 340 era, landing currency was an issue.
2 flights a month... sounds like a pretty good roster to me!
Or will unions hold business to ransom? Get Red Q going and do KL - SYD - LHR
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This is an interesting assumption. Whether Singapore Airline did something close is neither relevant nor from a representative sample sufficient to draw any inference.
Exposures and health outcome are not linear.
However, IFF Singapore Airlines collected health data for all pilots (and flight attendants) flying this sort of duty
and can contrast the health outcomes today then that is a reasonable basis to suggest that a sample inference can be drawn.
Effectively, this becomes the basis of any hypothesis suggesting that there are no adverse health outcomes.
This is not commercially what the desired outcome is. Thus, it is more probable that a linear extrapolation of existing fatigue and health outcomes be used as some sort of 'study' to satisfy a less than curious regulator and representative organisation.