Just spoke to a colleague who'd completed a 28hr+ Perth!
Last week during fog and diverted to DOH. On the ground and told by Ops to stay in terminal with pax and not go to Hotel as rescue aircraft coming. Every couple of hours the same message. This lasted over 10 hours. Crew returned to DXB exhausted. Other stories of crew using max discretion even up to 3 hours and of Cabin crew reporting for work 12 hours after a 20hour duty. Strange how the 'system' allows them to sign in. Nothing to do with shortage of crew I guess.
The final nail in the coffin. A letter from fleet asking to explain the 10 minute delay put down to 'crew'. Not relating to above flight I admit but if management have time to send letters like this, is it really too much to ask for a simple individual thank you for saving thousands and thousands of Dirhams during the disruption and for going above and beyond.
Maybe we'll all get nominated for a Najam award........or whatever it's called!
It's a sham this place and is a complete joke!
Harry