Near Miss,
I don't know what CX's exact crewing numbers are (only that they are always undercrewed).
The standard crewing ratio for LH/ULH is between 10-12 crews per a/c which gives 20-24 pilots per a/c.
An LAX service takes about 1.5 days for the a/c to do the return (including the downtime) so 2 aircraft are going to do about 40 LAX's a month.
That is 80 crews, each crew does 3, thats 27 crews, 13.5 per a/c. Now if you take into account most of the 777's are short/medium haul and that equates to leave, Sim, sickness and reserve, I think you can see that 10-12 crews/aircraft is not a million miles away.
Disclaimer. I am not an expert on this, just been around a fair time.
