16L/34R is considered to be a "short" runway for us on the A330.
If we are doing a regional patten in day-time when everyone on the flight deck is reasonably awake then yea sure we will use a short runway.
However after a red-eye 9 hours sector, 2 hours inflight sleep (if you're lucky) and landing at 4-6am body clock time we believe it's a bit silly to land on the short runway when there's a long runway available, just in case we misjudge the flare and need to land further into the runway.
In regards to the longer taxi time... it's a great thing if we are on overtime
