Why do people think that fatigue is caused by crossing multiple time zones????
The reasons we are fatigued our both the companies fault and sometimes the crews fault.
How many times do you get to a destination where the local time is 6pm and the time in dubai is 4 am and people are "meeting downstairs in an hour to go for dinner"
Why do people insist on trying to acclimatise to a new time zone within the time we spend there???? Staying on Dubai time will help alleviate some of the fatigue.
The reason from the companies side are more. They state in the OMA section 7.2
"The avoidance of the scheduling rest periods of between 18 and 30 hours especially after long flights across many time zones"
At last some common sense. Stay on DXB time, crews are whining about short layovers. Yes depending on where it is this takes a lot of determination.
18-30hrs - depends on which schedule. Day - Night agreed. Night-Day 18-30hrs is a different discussion - this allows 2 sleeps