Originally Posted by
cessnapete
BA don’t do “SOs”. On joining all copilots are fully trained and qualified as RHS for two crew ops. As Wiggy says many LH trips on 777/787/744/ and a few on A380 are operated with two crew. For a new LH FO, people are recruited with sufficient big jet hours to allow them, after the Type Rating to operate on two pilot trips immediately after Line Training as FO.
I was speaking about CX, as for BA we have all seen the various docunet updates that mention cruise only pilots as an interim measure before being fully qualified to the line on LH fleets.