We have operated LAX SYD and AKL for years. They leave in the middle of the night. You had to have 400 captain seniority to fly the thing as an FO.

We are going to raise the safety flag, on something we have done for 15 to 20 years? That doesn't pass the sniff test, and management knows it. Pilots will sell their mothers to bid these trips.

In the last 2 years alone we have code-shared away SEA NRT, NRT HKG, and HKG BKK. Those are just what I know about. SFO TLV is somehow different?