It all depends on the crew that you have for that flight. You can have long flight with great crew and then time flies, but if you have a wrong mixture then every day and every sector is absolute torture. The flight itself is actually okay. It is just the drama among the crew that can sometimes make it a bad flight.
Like I always say, It starts from the top. If the seniors are nice,the flight goes well.....
I was just telling others about my friends experience on her Brisbane trip. It doesn't mean that it happens all the time.
Good luck with your rosterbids. I just got the worst roster for August