CX B777-300ER Rest Area for Pilots

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Yes, CX 300ERs have the overhead flight crew rest area up the front.

Minimum required rest periods on ULR flights where the time difference between the places where the preceding Duty Period started and finished is six hours or more:

1. Where the rest period starts less than 72 hours after the start of the Duty Period that resulted in the flight crew member first becoming unacclimatised (a flight crew member is considered unacclimatised as soon as he/she finishes a Duty Period at a place where the Local Time differs by more than three hours from his/her Home Base Local Time):
   
   The longest of:
   
   • The length of the preceding Duty Period
   • Fourteen hours
   • A period sufficient to allow a sleep opportunity within the period 2200 to 0800 Home Base Local Time.
   
   
2. Where the rest period starts 72 hours or more after the start of the Duty Period that resulted in the flight crew member first becoming unacclimatised:
   
   The longest of:
   
   • The length of the preceding Duty Period
   • Fourteen hours
   • A period sufficient to allow a sleep opportunity within the period 2200 to 0800 Local Time at place of rest.

As an alternative to 1. and 2. above, the rest period can be the longer of:

• The length of the preceding Duty Period, or
• 34 hours.

Clear as mud??

Scheduled Duty Periods for our JFK flights:

HKG-JFK: 17:05
JFK-HKG: 17:40

In practice, there are two JFK flights each day; one pattern gets a scheduled layover of 34:20, while the other gets 48:15.