Beerbelly - bear in mind that Hutchings/Evans MUCH prefer to see experienced guys leave. It reduces costs a lot more quickly than just watching FOs leave. As for experience to fly the line - who needs that?
I see our Command experience requirements being degraded all the time, but maybe when sufficienty bodies have left, the rest of us will be drawn into mainline - after all, we've got the uniforms now, its only a matter of time!