Yep........
All a bit confusing. One minute all the crews are being told we're all to be ETOP's trained, the next we here it's just a handfull of Capts. / FO's.
Then we here that Winglets are being considered for two aircraft for cost saving on long sectors?????
The new Ops manuals are beginning to fill up with ETOPs and there's talk of a new flight planning system that can cope with it but it's all a long way off the structures that other airlines have.
One was hoping that it would all seem a lot more encoraging but the first few days of summer 08 don't exactly seem to have been the most promising of starts, especially after all the talk of better crewing / rostering guidelines. Although, in someways that has been caused by a lot of extra unplanned charter work which can only be good for the company - and in turn, the value of my shares!!!!