bigmouth1980
It looks like CX plans to crew long haul flights up to 16 hours now with 1 Capt, 1 FO and 2 SO's when the new CAD371 / AFTL's come into effect. Actually they just started to crew some flights already this way.
Will be interesting to see if they will change the freighter long hauls from 1 Capt and 2 FO's to 1 Capt, 1 FO and 1 SO.
If this will happen it looks to me that there is no real need to hire DEFO anymore. All new positions will be filled with Cadets, maybe DESO and FO positions filled from within CX upgrading SO's.