This is on good authority, ie a horses mouth....valid as at jan 07
First a/c ex air europe in may , second in october, third to follow. Man base a couple of years off. First two crewed up but 10 f/os needed as of early jan.
Some of the start up team given type ratings, the rest need to be qualified purely due to the large pool of qualified mates and colleagues of the start up team wanting to join. Definately a good job on paper but time will tell. I dont think outsiders will really appreciate the potentialy cliquish nature of the start up team and first intakes, particularly if the wunderkind training team try to re-invent the wheel ,longhaul wise.That usually pisses of the luddites, who will then throw their toys out and voila, Zoom is suddenly subjected to assassination. (See gsm thead for example)
Not a dig just an opinion.
