Originally Posted by
PoppaJo
I would hazard a guess and say the three aircraft going will be CNS and OOL based.
There is nothing in any agreement (same with Virgin LH) about company forced aircraft downgrades. There is some interesting wording around bonds and conversions.
Many FO's are long eligible for narrow body commands. I know some are irked that Cadets, even 787 SO's who joined in what 11/12 will get a narrow body command over FOs who have been wide body since day dot and still a FO chasing that upgrade. They will now be sent back to the Airbus and that skipper next to them will be that 787 SO they use to fly with. Well that was the debate we had the other day.
My understanding was that it was due to the HNL routes being dropped, so the aircraft would come from Mel/Syd.
The last paragraph of your post doesn’t make much sense to me. There aren’t any former 787 SOs who are captains. We’ve only had SOs since 2016ish