Max angle,
I was under the impression the deal is for 'damp lease' i.e aircraft and pilots - I cannot understand why Bmi would got to the expense of getting their own folks type rated for the contract.
Furthermore as bmi has no 757s on it's AOC what would happen - would you have bmi pilots re employed by Astraeus ?It s not as simple as getting' checked out' (we're not talking about Cessna 152s here !),
furthermore I find all the bleating by the bmi pilots about their promotion prospects rather distasteful as we are actually talking about people's jobs here - not just getting an extra stripe !