It's fairly easy to read the writting on the wall as to what is going to happen to the availability of basings for captains with the new CoS but is this going to have a negative impact on the availability of FO vacancies as well?
My fear is that with RA65 a lot of F/O's who've been sticking it out in Hong Kong waiting for their command will now have their command delayed so significantly that they'll just say "screw it" & flock to the bases. Couple that with the fact that CX will be hiring DEFO's onto the pax fleet and the fact that new DEFO joiners will have to remain on a base for 4 years before transferring to Hong Kong and I think we may see zero base vacancies for any rank in the near future.
Anyone care to disagree with me?