I recently flew 4x short haul flights with CX last week and 90% of the crew seems tired /stressed/ uninterested especially those working in Y with the exception of the IFMs. There seem to be a lot of crew deadheading on these short flights though - is that of the norm?

That example above where the crew worked a return flight to India and a night flight to Japan may have explained the disinterested / chaotic service on my HKG-KIX flight last week where literally the whole crew looked exhausted and severely disorganised with the Y service (I can tell they were tired and just wanted to get off).

I also thought it was strange at first when the crew disembarked in KIX instead of working on the return flight as HKG-KIX is fairly short 3.5 hours but given the above crew rostering this makes sense then