If you think the Heavy Maintenance issues are going to bite them bad, Line Maintenance is going to have a chomp earlier.
Have they picked the Engineers for the 787? NO.
Have they started EASA training for B1 and B2? NO.
Have they impreesed with the pay scale for the 787? NO.
Mind you, as a certain person in Jetstar had a love of saying:- "There's thousands of engineers out there bashing on the door to get in."
It has been rumoured that the internal applications for 787 Enginneering positions have been a bit thin. People are underwhelmed. All these problems were not helped when at the last Engineering EBA meeting the Management promptly shut down proceedings when the Engineers had the temerity to include a professional negotiator in their team for the first time.