Originally Posted by
Flyhighfirst
If the route was DOH-ATL-ORD-DOH what are you going to do? Leave 2 crew in Atlanta and tell them to make their own way home?
no it's not, most of the cargo rotation are just 2 men crew as the aircraft flies multiple sectors doable with 2 pilots, also in this case the flight to atlanta was not from doha.
when they don't ned extra pilot this can also be dedheaded to homebase