Heavy is the term given to the extra crew members, usually the extra first officer but in the case of a 4 man crew the heavy would refer to the extra capt and fo.
inbound/outbound was refering to in or out of london.
everybody is different, but most people cant for example sleep for 3 hrs at 7pm, which is what you would be trying to do if you were heavy on say the early Jo'burg, or at midday on a USA west coast.
I dont mind being heavy on daylight sectors out of the uk, but on night sectors middle or last break will break the flight up a bit and usually give me a better chance of sleeping.
Some guys like last break into LHR because they may have a longdrive home etc etc.
Everyones different and you will soon learn what suits you and try and bid for trips accordingly.
As for destinations, east coast of the USA they both do a bit, with the 74 doing the majority of the JFK.
The 744 does all the major cities, SFO, LAX,HKG,SIN,CPT,JNB,GRU etc and apart from SIN for the time being the 777 does none of these. Its hard to pick up a 74 roster without at least one of these destinatiions on it. The 777 has some great LGW beach destinations and although it does do some nice cities eg. Shangai it also has alot of lower hour shorter trips like Tel aviv and kuwait so at the bottom of the seniority list you are unlikely to see some of these better destinations.
I'd say on average 4 trips a month for the 747 and 5 on the 777.
Last edited by spoilers yellow; 6th February 2008 at 11:01.