INKJET,
It doesn't quite work like that. bmi as an organisation is not a ladder to climb with a regional F/O as the bottom rung!
baby pilots may well be Boeing rated, on the 737. That doesn't have a great deal of bearing on flying the 757 though, does it? It's still a completely new typerating.
SR71,
No, I'm saying perhaps they should dry lease the aircraft and type-rate some of their own pilots (20?)....on the basis that they'll probably have Boeings again in the fleet at some time in the future.
Fair point...but that is a massive 'If', and I refer you to my point above. I can hardly see us getting 757's into the fleet in the future, so typerating some guys and girls on it, on the basis that at some point in the future we might get some more Boeing manufactured aircraft makes no financial sense.