You know how you push back from the gates 3 hours late at places like YYZ, which makes you really forward to getting back to HKG as quick as you can, then as you reach the East coast of Asia you get this darn announcement saying that there's gotta be a crew change diversion to somewhere like TPE or Japan. And makes you end up feeling kinda pissed or paranoid that there is yet another delay. Add that up on top of the original delay, oh it's gonna be 6 hours late at least.

Every time this happens I am like, what the heck!? We're almost there, why bother changing the crew? I mean, I'm pretty sure they wanna go home too (most of them, considering the port is HKG, where many CX crew are based), why go to some foreign places instead? Do all crews want unexpected or surprise vacations by diverting somewhere else? They all seem to be very rigit about that 18 hour limit, like their life will be at stake if they stay on duty for longer than that.