Fair one Hog. BTW, Brits or Thomsonfly or whatever do a fair amount of flying into 3rd world airports, not a few in Euroland!
Back of the clock, max duty? par for the course on charter. New FO? Don't know mate, at 8 years in the RHS I consider myself one.
Take your point though, apologies for bitchy post, just done a back of the clock etc.