Similar story. Fresh out of IOE, commercial ORD-NRT (12 hours?) then sit in NRT for 5:45 (15 minutes less than the contractually obligated need for a hotel room) then another coach class middle row seat to SYD. Ouch.

Most pointless DH? ORD-PVG-DEL, operate DEL-ADD, DH ADD-FRA-ORD.

Good times.

Somebody needs a hug.

That's more or less the wording I used in the official Fatigue Report that I submitted to the company. Although I think my language was a bit more colorful, as I didn't have to work around auto-censoring algorithms.

Never heard anything more about the incident!