The issue is currency, not hours.
It is not sensible to keep switching between two types of aircraft and two types of operations.
There are training costs to be borne in mind, not to mention there will potentially be a chance for confusion on the flight deck, or just generally not upto the same speed as one should be.
The 200 hour guy will be constantly flying the same type.
This is why many regulators do not allow flying of more than one type at a time for public transport operations.
The talk of other companies picking up the slack is nothing more than pie in the sky.. If there was that much slack then TUI would leave aircraft in Canada year round and make money from them.... There is not sufficient demand, this is why aircraft and crew move back and further across the Atlantic.
Again, there are Canadians flying everywhere... Make sure your campaign does not harm your brothers!
Last edited by PT6A; 2nd Jun 2012 at 11:01.