So your either Being disengenuous or you don't understand it
So you acknowledge that the only difference to the credited hours is the night credits, and given this is a discussion about the 787 replacing the A380 on MEL-LHR, how many night credits did they earn on this route on the A380? 7.85 hours?? Nope. Nowhere near that.
MDC is 49:30 and the pattern credited hours are 49:37. So these wonderful night credits delivered exactly 7 minutes credit over a 9 day pattern!
The 787 crew are going to be flying PER-MEL-PER for MDC so the exact same credited hours as the A380 but on a a higher rate than the A380.
Once again. The lack of night credits WILL NOT significantly increase the hours flown by crews each bid period.