As I understand it EK crews night stop in an airport based hotel. Some airlines/countries have mandated room quarantine for entire crews during their stay, often with zero provision of food at certain stations for some airlines. One ME airline’s flight crew manger operating a trip for ‘recency’ has been reprimanded in Germany for leaving their room.

We have our own procedures that are approved by the HKG authorities and we get temp checked as part of these procedures on arrival at crew report. There are various other layers to this but I won’t divulge them other than to say preparing for a trip these days is far more time consuming than in the past. Regardless of the load factor for passengers, cargo has been a big driver of whether or not to operate certain long hauls over the past months so I doubt the 31/32 will be suspended anytime soon.