Originally Posted by
Jett i son
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What I am reading is, that the nights away from home can be an issue with the spouses, since they are only there because of the husband/wife.
Is is fair to say that EK crews sleep away from home about half the time?
well its fair to say we sleep at home half the time....listen, one of the big issues you need to think about is when you get home, say after a flight of 8-14hrs, and you walk in the door around 6am is that your family is just waking up...and you're wiped out. So you try to sleep in a noisy house at sunrise and you'll feel the pressure (internal and external) to get up and spend time with your family.
After some time of this they get ****ed off and you get ****ed off. Its a tough situation. You spend some of your days off readjusting to dubai time....you feel like a hangover after awhile that never really goes away. You may even take your next trip not fully recovered from your last. This job is 24/7. Not like back home.