Flaps 62,
Exactly what you say. In BA's and the CAA's view operational experience is, it has recently been reduced from one year, just 6 months. You could have a whole crew apart from the senior crew member with just 6 months experience each and they would be considered capable of operating in any position. When someone has less than 6 months experience, you have to make sure they are working with someone who has more than six months experience. Obviously this is done and there is a limit to how many crew can be on board with this lower experience. ie on an airbus only one crew member with under 6 months experience can be in charge of a door and part of the core crew on that aircraft but on bigger aircraft the number goes up. This is why initially all the new Mixed Fleet crew had to have had previous airline experience and it is only now that they have got their numbers up that they have can take on completely new, new entrants.
On worldwide it would only be when a new person was on board or a volunteer that the CSD would need to do this. On Mixed Fleet this will be very critical in the next few months as many brand new crew are just about to come on line and the CSMs will need to look very carefully at the spread of crew across the various doors.
The CSDs and CSMs are putting these crews in these various positions not to aid the cabin service but to have a legal spread of crews across the door areas. That is what the JPM is referring to and not who does or does not work in Club, First or World traveller!!!
Obviously on Worldwide everyone will have miles more experience than just six months and on any occasion this is not the case, the CSD would be looking at it and repositioning anyone to another position if needed. Crew with this lower level of under six months are marked on the briefing sheet accordingly so, so that the CSD is aware that he/she needs to monitor this and it will be exactly the same on the M/F briefing sheets although it will need a lot of thought from the CSMs as they will be dealing with many more new crew on their flights.