Burger Thing
Old School- surely not.
You have to remember that us "modern pilots" are, frankly, just not as good as the previous generation. The equipment we fly is just a lightweight, inferior, version of what you flew. We overly rely on Autoland, Satcoms and Computer Generated Flight Plans and FMCs to hide the stark truth that we really don't have a clue what we are doing. It is truely amazing that of the many "8 series" call signs (meaning they are coming from the US) we operate every day, not one has splashed into the sea. All considered, this succcess can only be put down to utter luck?
CX and KA are relatively new at operating into this part of the world and to have the ability to tap into your knowledge from 3 different airlines would be of immense benefit. You are correct, RCKH is a rock solid div, open 24/7 with multiple runways and ILS's to burn. However, it is about another 8 Tonnes over VMMC, which equates to about 80 passengers. So my question to you is, when dispatching from NY for a 15+ hour flight at Max Take-off weight, how did you decide which of the passengers you were going to offload to allow for the extra weight of the RCKH fuel? Did you off load, every 3rd passenger, or did you offload the fattest ones or just the cheapskates at the back-end of economy?
As an aside, did any of your 3 airlines go bust by any chance?
Editor's note. Some, if not all, of the above is an attempt to extract urine.