Does anyone understand how once weekly airline service works?

I talked about this with an AirBerlin flight attendant once. I used to fly POP-DUS frequently which was operated from two times weekly, Mondays and Wednesdays. Once the crew landed in POP they would fly in a jet to PUJ and work the flight back to DUS. PUJ was served every day except Mondays and Wednesdays, the days they flew to POP. The crew that flew to PUJ on Sunday would then fly to POP on Monday and work the flight back to DUS. I know that Eurowings does the same and I'm pretty sure that's how it works with Edelweiss.

Hey, i just stumbled upon this question when I read the articles you wrote about Swiss. I used to work for Edelweiss after I graduated high school to travel the world and in the mean time to save some money for university. That was maybe 3 ago and it was a really good choice. And YES, they let us stay at Tampa for a week. But not only TPA, also Mombasa, Mauritius and Maldives and besides that we had 3 and 4 and 5 night stays in Vancouver, Tokyo(operated for Swiss), Phuket, Capetown and Punta Cana. A former colleauge once complained to me that she was away from home for 7 full weeks in a row with only little time at home in between. Later on in the triangle Cuba-Dom.Rep.-Florida private jets were used to get us from one destination to another which left us 4/3 night stays in TPA and then 1 night at the destination we had to leave from. Since they have become quite successful they bought 2 new 320's and they also expand their longhaul fleet ever since I left the company, so the layovers will continually become shorter. But in addition to that they also include new destinations such as Vegas, Havanna and next year Rio de Janeiro for example, all with 3/4 night layovers. Still I think that Edelweiss is one of the best companies to work for(if not the best) as a flight attendant. It is still small and everyone knows each other, it is a nice atmosphere and they are very innovative, so it stays interesting despite the job being the same on every flight.

Take 2 crews on the flight. One deadheads each way while the other works.

I'm friends with one of the Edelweiss flight attendants on the TPA route. The entire crew is put up in a hotel for a week and then works the flight home the following week. Pretty sweet deal. Apparently that flight makes tons of money for them even with the cost of housing the crew for the week.

A friend of mine was working on doing mods to some 777s when he worked for Temco (they do contract maintenance for many airlines) where they were adding in a crew rest area above the passenger compartment. This was to allow airlines to have a second crew resting on the outbound leg so they could just swap crews for the return.