Originally Posted by
cityflyer369
Exactly. :-)
One-stop flights AMS-Oz are a different topic, and of course for such an approach the problems are:
- crew costs
- still 3-segments flights except for the final destination (SYD or MEL)
- additional flight times for everybody not going to SYD or MEL
- the additional inconvenience of having a stop (in SE Asia, for example).
A nonstop flight costs extra crew as there should be 2 sets of crew onboard while a flight AMS-SIN-(PER|SYD|MEL) requires 1 set of crew each leg and can stay in a hotel overnight in SIN and fly back on duty or further onward to Oz.