Stamp all you like. I'll eat my hat (I have eaten it plenty of other
times)
'Fries and a Coke with that sir?
All B777 pilots in Oz either have B777/B787 on their licence or can write to CASA (send $25 and a stamped, self addressed envelope..) and have it put on their licence without further training.
CASA will not doubt require that there be a certain ratio of pilots on the B787 with relevant type experience (B777) as was the case when Vaustralia started up. Remember about half of the B777 SFOs have previous jet commands-some have even been made training pilots and simulator instructors in the Virgin Group.
Here the question needs to be asked: Given that the SFOs on the B777 at VAI have had their career paths truncated by
group date of joining with the VAA (domestic) pilots and that the later group are now seeking to put all VAI pilots at the bottom of the VAA list, what would tempt B777 SFO to look at B787 commands at J*? The Scoot offer certainly wasn't enough. My guess is that a few Captains would be interested too.