Originally Posted by
Derfred
You certainly can RIN between LH and SH, just not compulsorily.
You can’t displace into SH during a RIN. There needs to be slots advertised to bid for.
There are no new 737 orders on the books. Apart from a handful of over 65s the vast majority of 737 pilots are well away from retirement age. There’s going to be no long haul positions to bid for for a long time. So roughly the same amount of 737 pilots will be needed in the mid term future as are needed today, and no big numbers are going to be leaving. So no large number of slots means almost no significant opportunity for LH pilots to go to SH.
And don't think they won't inflate B737 numbers - they did that brazenly during the GFC. The low MGH on the B737 makes it an ideal place to "hide" excess pilots - almost as cheap as Stand Down.
Not now. There’s always a cost with training and administration to have extra pilots on the 737, away from their optimal 68ish hr divisor. Management have indicated they want no unnecessary spend so there’s no financial incentive to retrain more to SH to keep divisors low. There’s training triggers that have to be met too.