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Your analysis of organising training courses for ab initios in a company like Flybe is correct.
However, the question is how much slack is there in the line training system, and what happens when the CAA starts taking a long hard look at experience levels, especially if it's Captains and Senior FOs that lead the exodus and you forced back to rostering ab initios with low hour skippers.
It's happened before and it's not pretty.
Jimbo and the team are not known for their sympathy towards crew, and will be relying on the fact the mass exodus can't happen at the moment to keep the boot firmly on necks.
You have two choices really, get behind BALPA or let management get behind you with the sand impregnated lube....