Just out of interest what was the background of the crew member responsible for taking the 747 cross country in BKK?
Also, as an aside, it's one thing to put a green cadet in the back of a widebody for four or five+ years as Qantas has in the past but this should be clearly seperated from the RHS on an A320 in domestic ops. Fact is you may half learn some simple procedures in a few hundred hours but you could never gain the depth or experience you get from the military or GA. Fact.