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Some person
Wouldn't flying out crew only require IDBing some passengers at most so that there are seats for the extra crew?
Both SK909 and SK965 (HKG) is currently listed as being on schedule, so I assume they will be full with pax's on the seats not taken up by crews. But if they are using the flights to bring crews to the hole US and Asia region there won't be many seats spare for pax's.
They need to fly out crew's otherwise there are no one to fly the birds back after the first outbound leg. A crew can't travel as pax's on the outbound leg and then fly back as crew a few hours later. At least not as far as I know, and personally I wouldn't like to be on the return flight with a crew which has just spend +6 hours as pax's.