LST, I don't know about BA and Lufthansa, but I'll say it again, CX cadets don't get to the RHS for 3-5 years, KA cadets do and it's bluddy hard work for the Captains, the most heard phrase on a KA flight deck with a cadet in the RHS is " priority left " Fact.
Sorry to burst your bubble and your great " there we were......" story, I am talking about daily events not a once in a career event with an very capable low hour pilot
Hongkongfoey, maybe like many other changes in CX/KA the days of a skipper having some 5000 hr new joiner in the other seat are a thing of the past. So as a skipper you have to work a little bit harder for your money. The rest of the world has been dealing with lack of experience in the right hand seat for years, cadets are a financial nobrainer especially as statistically it's no less safer.