Lobey..
If the rumour is true and they are basing tech crew in LA for a month this creates some friction simply because they are not doing this with cabin crew
Surely you can't be serious?
Patterns differ greatly between TC and CC. I bet they do use AKL CC and that makes sense seeing the a/c runs through the place. At the same time I bet they don't use AUS CC to run SY-AKL-LAX-JFK-LAX-AKL-SY as the pattern would be too long. Hence the reason they'll probably put the techies up in LAX for a month!