OnceBitten & Trader
Exactly correct! It's just the time between trips in general that really kills the attitude (and body fatigue).
I know one US carrier whose bid sheet I saw from a colleague leaving EK having a 3 day trip from a large US city over to a large Chinese City, with a 24 hour layover and then back to the US…. followed by 8-9 days off.
Those boys did three of those trips and the rest as off days. Still got about 80-some hours those months (or maybe had to throw in a turn for productivity :-)
So…. its 9 days on, 21 days off. Hmmm….
Kap