Correct! Only our Pacific Theater qual requires entry only.

What he may have been thinking of was when we flew redeyes from JFK-BOG.

Then, flight ops policies were even if the crew was qualified, that there would be a third pilot for the JFK-BOG leg only due to the terrain, challenging arrival, etc all after a 5 hour redeye (a good idea I might add). Then, for awhile there was a bit of an underhanded "grease my skids" where LCAs and AQFOs were the only ones getting this deal (thus the deviate from DH go right back to ATL on the morning BOG-ATL flight scenario).

But these were not quals at all--just flight ops policies. ALPA quickly said, "uh, this should be available for all pilots, not just Flight Standards guys" so a MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) was written up and these were actually put into the bid package.

Now we don't fly JFK-BOG all-nighters anyway so it is all a moot point.

But that was always a different animal from the inital BOG checkout which requires both an entry and exit from LCA/AQFO.