Originally Posted by
Seosan
Currently the 78 is hours high and sector short whilst the 330 is sector high and hours short. Company comms suggest that will be balanced out over the next two years, if I was to crap shoot a guess maybe CPT or SEA to the 339. Until the VP flight ops moves fleet I’d wager the 78 routes are pretty safe.
And the company said the average hours per sector will reduce on the 787, but a lot of that will be done by the loss of the PVG route (14-15hrs). Main pilot shortage is on the Airbus, so they’ll shy away from deploying it on 3 crew routes for now. Can see the 339 picking up DXB for that reason and the J class being superior to be more compatible to EK. Maybe JNB to the 350, but no chance the 339 will fly 11hrs to CPT (must be about 13hrs at 0.8M
) Toronto will be 339 as well in the spring.
Bottom line… don’t make any career decisions one way or another based on the current fleet deployment, because it will swing at some point… but probably not in the short term.