Thanks for the reply Lapon. I am surprised you get enough pilots recruits who will never fly the airplane! We had a short period on our last recruitment phase when due to lack of training route sectors some new F/Os on 380/777 etc had to wait a few months as Cruise Only, I think they could only sit up front above 20000ft. Thy hated it ,bored out of their tree after a month or two as a third pilot on a two crew airplane..
Still its better than no job.