To further on what thadocta has said, it does take a lot of crew to operate the extra LAX-JFK shuttle
A typical Los Angeles trip is 4 days (some are 5 but we'll keep it simple)
To operate that flight daily, taking into account minimum rest requirements and having a standby crew in Sydney requires 105 cabin crew
A New York trip is 7 days. To operate that flight daily and again taking into account minimum rest requirements requires 165 crew.
Assuming that the crew are hired to operate these patterns only which of course isn't the case, it's just to calculate figures
And a bit of related information - to operate 1 A380 requires around 150 cabin crew, and at any one time there are over 250 cabin and tech crew in LAX
Last edited by eoinnz; Sep 20, 2008 at 10:11 am