Betty Girl: Whether you find what I have said to your liking or not I can assure you it is all accurate and should worry you as it is making BA uncompetitive from the costs, schedule/frequency(long haul to the Far East) and operational integrity point of view.On shorthaul for example, Easyjet, FlyBE and most , if not all, others roster the aircraft and both sets of crew together on the day although all 3 work different rosters and are just together for the day. The Easyjet normal crew pattern will be 4 sectors during the first part of the day for the first crew and a further 4 sectors by the aircraft for the second part of the with a new crew . Oh ,- and there won't be any early start or late finish payments either. On long haul there is no reason why BA should not operate westbound daylights ex Far East by introducing earlier departures eastbound to enable pre-midday departures on the return leg ex HKG, SIN in particular. They just choose not and not to increase frequencies, partly because of this service problem. As result CX are now 4 x daily on HKG and BA down from 3 to 2. A similar story exists in SIN where SQ now out perform BA on frequencies by operating daylights, ditto TG ex BKK. Sad but true.