[petschge]

How safe are an extra hour around KSFO, an hour turnaround and 45 more minutes flying after a long haul flight because an ATC wants to feel like the unquestioned king?

[MadnessASAP]

I don't have the FAA crew time regulations on hand, or Lufthansa policies. However I would be extremely surprised if they used the same pilots.

[pas]

Is it possible to check it somehow? Did Lufthansa just had a spare pilot in/around Oakland?

[dehrmann]

I wonder how they do that. There's only one SFO-FRA flight per day flown by Lufthansa, so if a pilot gets sick, you don't want that delaying the flight and causing a rebooking headache.

[pas]

I guess they have contracts for all kinds of similar contingencies. Maybe the whole Star Alliance has one for SFO, or operators of various other intercontinental flights do.