Will never happen (IMHO) and is just a management ploy to try and keep the pilots sweet for a bit longer in the hope that something will change in the industry and all the crisis about crew numbers will go away.
Whenever one has suggested that Ryans are better than us becos they have 5 and 3, have been told by easymanagement that this is becos Ryan isn't really 5 and 3 becos there days off rules are different and not CAP371 days off. So now our mangement with the colusion of the BALPA PC have decided to change the days off rules and call it 5 and 3. Its a sham!
Other obvious reality which no one involved in this fiasco wants to recognise is that when you are already doing 6 and 3 (really 7 and 2 and then 6 and 3) and you are once again buying back leave in the summer at ludicrously high daily rates, you are absolutely irresponsible to suggest that you are looking at changing to 5 and 3. If you had the capacity to do it, why would you be buying back leave on 6 and 3?