Re: SIA DEC
Well, with Singapore Airlines you never know what it is in their mind.A friend of mine who joined the company 4-5 years ago as A340/300 DEC (at that time he was A320 Skipper)for about 3 years changed the equipment three times.First A340/300,(the aircraft was phased out due to miserable performance).An year later transition to 747/400 (never flown Boeing before) for less than a year, to follow another transition to A340/500 Skipper. Interesting,isn't it? Another friend two months ago signed a new contract, transition from 777 to 747/400(the day before to start the ground course),to be informed on the very following day that he is to stay with 777,
because of Captains shortage. Bottom line,the company makes a very bold steps crediting their pilots professionalism and transferring them according its operational needs. Needless to say that this is probably the only company recruiting pilots from 737 and A320 for DEC 777 and A340/500. So, how they going to crew their new A380 nobody knows.But for sure plenty of 777 Skippers are going to change the cockpit,even with no Airbus experience. The seniority probably also say so. Anyway, we'll see it very soon.