I suspect there will be hell to pay amongst the SH FO community (prospectively around 40% at least of the pilots on the bus will have valid bids for LH this year) if the inevitable happens and PRP and external recruitment begins to slide back into those vacant LH seats. Any LH vacancies should be coursed with those internal bidders with valid bids. We all know the “2 course argument” will come into play as a means to justify it but why does this rule set only seem to be applicable to Airbus FOs? If that’s such a big deal then surely BA should be recruiting DEC to LH as well as that’s more cost efficient than running two courses…. But we all know DEC LH is a non starter with the BACC. Shame they wont protect the career aspirations of their own pilots on the more junior side of the coin though. I see mass resignations from BALPA from SH FOs shortly on the horizon.