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Old Apr 5, 2015 | 6:56 pm
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Originally Posted by polynet
They would have been over their hours so they couldn't have flown due to their rules too.
In the past when crew hours has been an issue, EK has taken off from JFK and diverted to a suitable enroute airport to the maximum of that crews working hours, i.e. Kuwait, while in the meantime they would have dispatched a fresh crew from DXB in order to get back to base.
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