Originally posted by southernbelle
On the whole VS flights are 7 hours plus, and all the crew are not rushed off their feet constantly.
Richard, I've done flights well over 7 hours and the only time I have sat down is take off and landing. True there is often not much to do on a night flight but we often don't stop on day flights, particularly Vegas, Syd - Hk, inbound from India. To lose a crew member would be hellish, service would suffer without a doubt
Point taken (I know FSM's can be extremely busy), but how often do flights leave crew down anyway? Speaking to crew on our PVG sectors, they struggled to remember the last time they had the full contingent.