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That feels like a dream job for a temporary amount of time. And very effective too. I assume the VFX studio is in Melbourne?

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Maybe if they’re flying first class? Otherwise that sounds like a nightmare that would require an insanely high paycheck.

If you're flying back and forth on that route that often, you're going to get upgraded quickly, I would imagine. I've done 6 flights a month domestic and have been upgraded to first class for free fairly often.

Depends on the rewards program I suppose. A US airline I’m familiar with does not upgrade frequent fliers on international flights.

You're allowed to say their name here.

>Otherwise that sounds like a nightmare that would require an insanely high paycheck.

If the courier in question is 6'2" that might be the case, but I suspect if the person was much smaller and is a heavy sleeper, that it wouldn't be too bad.

He was a writer, and seemed to enjoy the job

As a person of 6’0” I found the flight from LAX to SYD, and return, miserable in coach. I slept a lot and watched some movies but any way you cut it that is a long time to be sitting in a very uncomfortable seat.

In the before times I flew Auckland to Doha over 20ish hours. I can’t believe anyone likes flying, every bit of it is awful.

I’m 1.97m or so and it’s really not designed for me. I suspect it’s optimised for those at 1.6-1.7m.

1.75m here and coach sucks for me too. For that reason and social distancing I just bought a car that can drive me to places I’d usually fly, in much more comfort.

It's an ideal job if all you need is hours of concentration, reading, and writing or drawing. A writer, a PhD student with a laptop, a comic book author, etc.

Or, maybe, even a Zen monk who spends time meditating.

Dream job to spend hours and hours in a plane? Then more hours clearing customs? Thanks but no thanks.

But Americans going to Australia just pass through a computerized system. You don't even have to talk to anyone.

I agree with OP, if this was a first class flight, it wouldn't be a bad gig.

Yeah one location in LA and another in Melbourne so that we had 24 hour coverage.

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