A senior flight ops manager is on the record as saying that he doesn't believe that a RIN is going to happen. Add to that the last base ops update which stated that most 747 pilots will have "promotional opportunities" on to other fleets including the 737, with a few for whom "other options" will have to be found.
I find this to be very presumptuous and possibly a not so subtle attempt by Flight Ops to avoid the RIN procedure very clearly delineated in the CA.
It presumes that many FO's and SO's who have hitherto avoided the "promotional opportunities" of the 737 and even the A330 till now are going to bid for them. None of the Captains on the type will consider the 787 a "promotional opportunity" either. So with few or no slots on an already over-subscribed A380 in each rank, no vertical promotion on to either the 787 or the A380 permitted (at this time), one wonders where these promotional slots are?
If no-one bids off the type a RIN is inevitable. Be advised accordingly