Crusty:
Well, call me a liar, but I have operated such flights!! Mind you I left in 2001 so maybe/ hopefully things have changed.
Maybe you joined later on where things matbe ain't so bad if you are flight deck.....as I said in a previous post, I operated 21 hours straight for QR on a DOH DAC turnaround which became delayed and delayed. They needed the aircraft in DOH, took about 6 hours to decide what they wanted to do and then gave that old number..."special dispensation for DCAM".
I believe Mubarak BA was one of the skippers...certainly Karlton and Clinton on the Cabin crew so why don't you check your facts before accusing us of being "disaffected crew who don't know the regs" Or ask Bunty, Crewing Manager...
...oh and just for the record I was actually seconded to the crewing dept for a while and I AM VERY AWARE of the regs!
