Originally Posted by
dr dre
Possibly one of the sticking points would be 2 crew back of the clock night sectors back from Asia. HK, China and Japan are all within the range of the XLR to anywhere in Australia.
Is an alternative of a 3 crew crew operation for the longest sectors with a business seat rest being proposed?
What do competitors like JAL, ANA, the Chinese carriers and Cathay do? I believe all flying from that far north is widebody only at the present time.
It may be argued that if a competitor is doing 2 crew BOC in a widebody what’s the difference to doing it 2 crew in a narrowbody as you won’t need a bunk.
Not sure what the difference is “widebody vs narrowbody”. It obviously makes a difference to QF because they are currently asking narrowbody pilots to do flying that they wouldn’t dream of asking widebody pilots to do.