Originally Posted by NM
Probably less than operating in two sectors of 8 hours plus 12 hours. For a 12 hour flight, QF still uses 4 tech crew (Captain, FO and 2 SO's). That same crewing would still work for a 19 hour flight as it does for a 14-15 hour LAX-MEL flight.
Perhaps they will need an additoinal couple of FA's, but not the two full crews used now for the Kangaroo route. In fact, that would be a major part of the savings.
Note that the 777's come standard with a crew rest area in the rear.
Good point! But thinking about it they still need two full crews on Syd-LHR because of the stop plus I would think that there are likely to be significant penalties at least in the minds of the unions for such a work "shift". It would be interesting to see the cost analysis, not that I will!.