Originally Posted by
Capt Fathom
For the record, yes I have. And they absolutely hate it.
Agree entirely.
Also the SIN A350 crews that currently fly this sector do very few of them. Some don’t do any.
They have lots of short range destinations in Asia such as KUL,BKK,HND,HKG and Jakarta. Mumbai in India.
Lots to Australia PER,ADL,MEL,BNE and NZ AKL CHC.
Shorter stuff to Europe Like Moscow and A bit more to Spain BCN, Rome, AMS
So it’s nothing like doing exclusively 23 hours back of the clock 12 time zones out with project all night in Qantas.
Ultra range flights(Shorter than Sunrise) are only around 1/20th of Singapores route structure as opposed to 100% for QF.
Not anti the aircraft however what Qantas want to do will be hard flying on the body. If you think 23 hour work days leaving at night is easy then your viewpoint disagrees with the science otherwise it would be legal. Regardless No one has flown it so anyone that says it’s easy is full of S$&*.
If your potentially flying this kind of operation for many years consecutively, potentially to 65 and beyond it needs to be safe and sustainable. I believe CASA are of the viewpoint it’s not safe as other countries don’t allow it. They also won’t allow common endorsements with A330 or 787 so you won’t be able to mix the flying.