There is no sense to this policy.
There are plenty of bus fos to send across to the Boeing. Probably around 50+ that have now been here more than 3 years. However, the management prefer to further infuriate one of the groups that has worked the hardest.
With the letter dated Dec24 last year, nobody could do a transition upgrade without a freeze period unless they were DEC qualified.
It is the fact that there is now another, but not official policy change in play that allows accelerated fos go across.
Management seems to be able to adjust
any requirement to hours, experience as so forth unless it has a positive fallout for the "normal" bus fos.
Funny though, you would think a management team with the acromym EADS would be more in favor of bus fos, instead they seem to approach the issues more in the form of the
Marquis de SADE 