The "study" to which you refer was in advance of the inaugural Perth London flight, during which data would be collected from "selected passengers".
No, the 'study' to which Maggie Island and FightDeck refer is in fact a Monash university study conducted primarily on MEL-LAX-MEL and PER-LHR-PER flights initially amongst A380 and 787 Captains and F/O's and then amongst S/O's as well, collecting data from a few days before departure through to 3 or 4 days after return to their base. The data collected included sleep diary info, psychomotor testing at various stages of the duty and acti-graph data.
As has been alluded to before, this was a joint study with the support of AIPA.
The data collection was completed recently and is now being analysed. Whilst the hope is it will provide some significant recommendations useful to Sunrise planning, it was not exclusively designed with that in mind. Hopefully it will provide a range of recommendations for all of our ULR operations - including (among other things) appropriate crew complements for operations in excess of 20 hours…..