"(I've recounted this before) Working for a client in HKG in the 90s. LHR-SFO two days biz for them. SFO-HKG arrive 18:00 and straight to bed. Arrived office Thursday morning knowing that the Friday was the BIG day with the three finalists in the Tender doing their presentations on a critical communications project. I was the lead consultant. So I had a day to catch up.
No. I was told the presentations had been brought forward to save a day. They had made me do both long hauls in Y as they would not pay more (PE did not exist). Result? I fell asleep during the presentations."
Sorry I do not get it?
You flew early and had a nights sleep, then arrived at the conference refreshed and ready to go but the main work had been done the day before as it had been brought forward, In which case, you would have arrived at the office at exactly the same time as you did only having slept on board on the way business class
(A night in a hotel is a much sounder sleep than on a flight)
You would have been a day late anyway but not refreshed!
Jack