Alan Pardew
WTF happened against Sunderland. Better not be repeated against the Geordies on Saturday or else I'll get really angry.
It's an interesting point that has been discussed. The point that you immediately un-acclimatise upon departure from DXB on TZ 3hrs wide is complete rubbish. Science says a 1 hour shift per day. On a lot of flights EK operates on min rest turns you cannot hand on heart say you acclimatise to local time.
At my gaff we have a 2 crew Europe to USA variation working EU-US at Night and US-Europe day time. Crews don't acclimatise until they have 50 hours rest in USA (so that counts most of EK slips out me thinks)so they stay on EU TZ and enjoy a very advantageous FDP on the return day time / un-factored
This is UK AOC, approved FRMS, and the acclimatisation regs mirror EU Sub Part Q and soon to be EASA FTL (which is very complicated, wonder if GCAA will follow)
This is much more realistic than CAP371.
And on these particular rotations the dreaded 18-30hr rest periods are scientifically proven to be the bees knees.
Spooky innit
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