What a load of cr@p
Okay, I do not know the new operational plan, and I do not know the exact numbers required to operate our fleet Airbusses, but with the means available to all of us, it is quite obvious that this is completely ridiculous...
I did prepare a whole rant about how and what, but after reading it through decided that it was mainly moaning and bitching because those @55h0135 up in management can't do their math right...
Just a few numbers, make your conclusion yourselves... Since beginning of the year up to now, we had 72 new FO's joining on the A330 (18/month), only 40 started their upgrade course since then.
How can it be that the Captain/FO ratio is negatively affected by this so that the upgrades need to be delayed for this reason??
My 2p: Let the Captains work overtime as much as possible, every hour overtime costs a lot less then an hour 'basic pay'. A lot of captains will go through training this year, so the 12 month/900 hr thing won't really affect them in the end...
MR8