Aren't most of the carriers, implied in this thread, flying A330's? Aren't they fairly/relatively light at the end of a 10 hour duty/8 hour sector from Asia? Is their LDR really that close to 2000m as to be so concerned? Esp on Sydney where all runways are more than adequate... If they overshoot the landing zone by 300-400 m ... Shouldn't the risk mitigation, regardless of rwy in use/rwy length, be a go around???
LOSA'd a 777 into Sydney on RWY 07.... All crosswind, No issue... They even accounted for tailwind... Either it's possible... Or it's not. Risk mitigation is one thing.... But not simply being able to perform to a standard on EVERY (or ANY) sector you fly and hence REQUIRING the longest RWY everytime... Maybe you should be handing over?? Maybe you should be going fatigued? Maybe you should be flying the less risky/stressful/fatiguing short haul....
What say you are flying said same fatiguing sector to a destination where the luxury of multiple long runways isn't available, or have to divert to a non standard "short" runway... Are you going to refuse said flight/landing because you can't employ your risk mitigation?
To me this smells of a skipper I flew with once who wanted to refuse a STAR (... Yes a STAR... ) becuase he hadn't flown it before.... Despite the fact that the only difference was simply being from the east rather than from the north that he was used to.... 😳😳
