Originally Posted by
Halon1211
Could you explain why? Was it because it was just hard on your body? You said it wouldn’t want to do it again but you didn’t list any reasons.
For those who whine about back side of the clock flying, you cannot do long haul and avoid this. Yes it’s hard on the body, and an Airport hotel 45-60 minutes from central London or Paris gets just as old as one next to LGA. To avoid hitting another circadian rhythm the best layover times are less than 18 or over 30 hours, I’m guessing we won’t be doing the long ones. Etc etc.
Be sure to tell the CKA that BOG is a cake walk for when (or if you already upgraded) I’m sure they will love to hear that.
Compared to Kathmandu, Bogota is quite manageable (I did BOG in a 777). QFE approaches with metric altitudes into Kazakhstan, or butterfly shaped double procedure turn VOR approaches which aren’t in the FMS into Peshawar.
Yeah I guess we don’t fly ‘international’ at NK because the international you flew was cooler. 😎
No, because most of our routes are dispatched under FAA rules, not ICAO, that’s why.
As far as cooler, I mean, I guess...
Working out dispatch legalities for ETOPS, commercial cargo safety requirements, dealing with HF in remote areas, being 3 hours away from anything resembling a runway over the pole, and the intricacies of NAT OTS procedures isn't about being cooler, it’s that flying domestically in the US is really friggin easy and for me not worth a pay bump to do all that again.