If they run the 74 RIN why would they need to heavy crew? Any training positions allocated would be kicked down the road until there’s flying available to facilitate so those crews stay stood down for a while.
Therefore any 787 or 330 Captains that are demoted can’t be FO trained and stay stood down anyway.
The FOs demoted to SO is easily achievable. A few Sims and the line training is only 1 observation sector so that’s not hard to find.
The 330 and 787 SOs are all at the bottom of the list so are obviously the ones who get made redundant. That would normally be an expensive exercise given the requirement for the period of notice and redundancy entitlement to be not less than 26 weeks but given we’re all stood down on no pay does that mean they only have to worry about purely the redundancy payout? Relatively inexpensive if that’s the case.
As for the cost of recruitment on the other side, doesn’t the ‘redundancy list’ kind of take care of that? It states a pilot on the list will be offered a position when available based on seniority