For all the experts waxing lyrical about the effects of night credits on QF long haul flying you need to brush up on your facts. For example “...night credit protect the pilots from rosters of all night flying…” and ”…. A 767 sized aircraft with no night protections (night credit) flying all night…”.
On a current 10 day LHR pattern on the 380 the credits are 55 hours, night credits add precisely zero to this. Similarly on a 9 day pattern the credits are 50:30 where night credits add a total of 1:00 hour to the away credits of 49:30.
So all the rubbish about night credits saving everyone is just that, rubbish.
Further on the 380 with planning divisor of 175 and actual divisors 160 – 180 crew are flying on average 27 – 32 days a 56 day bid period.
On the 787 flying the announced schedules a LHR pattern will be 5 days and 35 stick hours. With both planning and actual divisors 145 – 175 this means that crew will work a maximum of 25 days a bid period and possibly as little as 21. Hardly a salt mine scenario.