BirmEx:
how is it possible for ppl to commute from the likes of Brazil, Australia, Canada etc or was that just a worst case senario followed by lots of time off??
Given that line of work one answer would be to try and trip swop with somebody else on the fleet. For example I'd try to swop the JFK on the 25th with another three day trip departing on the 22nd - producing a "back to back" with the GRU (I'm assuming such a swop would be legal from a Flight Time Limitations point of view)