Junior, I did a flight recently where there was this big yellow thingie high up in the sky. It was huge, at least twice the size of a full moon, (on which I, like most EK pilots, am an authority). Had to ask the other pilot what it was. I had seen it before, but I thought it only ever appeared REALLY low down in the eastern sky, just peeking above the eastern horizon, after a really long night flight. The other pilot told me that it actually gets as high as right overhead, then drops towards the western horizon in what he called "afternoon".
Now that was funny!!
We have a lot of red-eyes at my airline, but with some seniority it is possible to avoid them with our bidding system. Generally the most junior get stuck with them on the 737 fleet, but on the 757/767 fleet it takes much more seniority to avoid.