Skybunny
Rosters are showing 5 day BKK stopovers and the like
I think you are forgetting a little airline called Qantas, that operates to BKK daily - if you think JQI is planning on slipping crew in BKK for five days when they have the oppotunity to pax the crew back in Y/C on QF (after min rest of course)
.It would be cheaper for them to do that, rather than slip for 5 days. then pax the replacement crew up the day before, give em min rest again to operate the flight home. Same as HNL, they can just pax em back on the QF flight.
It's interesting you probably have seen dummy rosters, however when QF opened the LHR base, the dummy rosters they showed were not what the rosters turned out to be, maybe just a ploy to get crew over to JQI?
JQI obviously thinks they can get the 150 hours in a month. There is no way they can achieve these hours with anything more than single night slips in each port. At QF we already see patterns where crew pax on other airlines to gain greater roster efficiency.