The pertinent questions are these -
• In a scientific study; Why would there be anyone allowed anywhere near the control subjects, other than the researchers ?
• why would you pack the aircraft with journalists and management if you were serious about a real analysis of fatigue ?
This is a media objective and a luxury press junket, designed to achieve a positive industrial goal. No serious scientist would associate themselves with this as research or an experiment.
If that’s untrue; I ask Qantas Flight Ops to invite the major scientific institutions of Australia to publish their findings in the appropriate scientific journals. I’ll wait.
Qantas is going to be waiting a long tine before a serious scientist, with a PHD behind their name signs ‘the study’. After all, their reputations would hang upon it. Unlike Qantas management.