Emirates Pilot Rostering DXB - SYD/MEL/BNE - AKL
Hi all,
I'm always interested in how Emirates rosters their pilots on this route. It takes approximately 13 hours to fly from DXB to any of the major cities on the Australian East Coast, then another 2.5-3 hours to Auckland.
Does the same one set of pilots (or two) fly all the way through to AKL and rest up for 24-48 hours in AKL?
I would think it may be better if the same set of pilots fly from DXB to SYD, rest up for 24 hours in Sydney, and then do the SYD-AKL-SYD trip in one go, which is just under 5 hours of flying, plus ground turnaround time in AKL. Once they get back to SYD, rest up for another 24 hours or so, then fly back to Dubai.
Does anybody know how it's done on this route?
Just purely out of my curiosity.