No DE longhaul until airbus requirements filled or pool of type rated airbus drys up!
Highly unlikely to be the case. Due...
we are becoming very short of F/o's on long haul. Factor in the announced expansion of long haul and the deployment of people later in the year for the arrival of the 350
Any internal bidders for RHS LH
who are unfrozen, will likely be 'released' at some point in the training year, as fast as FPPs/recruits can replace them. That won't be sufficiently quickly to satisfy the LH training sausage machine.
Which is why...
Min 30 Direct Entry onto the 787 this year.
(As long as they get the Tupperware jet fixed!) is quite likely to be an underestimate.
If 'today's' plan runs it's course!