Originally Posted by littl_flier

I think the JFK turnaround must be an absolute killer. I watched my crabin crew yawn their way through a moderately delayed (3 hours) flight late last year. One of the young FA's was telling me - The flight was schedule on time at 8:50 so cabin crew were picked up from the hotel between 7am and 7:30am. Flight was delayed out of LAX and then left JFK about 2.5 hours late before arriving back in LAX around 1:00am. Crew would have been lucky to have been in bed by 1:45am. Makes for a huge day - worse than SYD-LAX. Can't say I envy them at all....