A4, you miss my point entirely with your ready and unnecessary sarcasm. Let me expand for you ; the company is at pains to secure as many commercial savings as possible which include the expedients of which you are familiar. It also chooses to put in it's cockpits, pilots with such ridiculously low experience (very cheap) that any fuel saving initiative is more than neutralized by their inability to fly the plane. At sub 200 total hours I too would have been clueless but equally there would have been no access, with good reason, to a commercial jet cockpit with such lack of experience when I started flying. If you are unable to see the erosion of flight safety and the shifting of risk through these initiatives and are unable to detect the difference in workload between a OETA and a OETD, perhaps you should continue drinking the coffee. As Captain I will continue to operate the aircraft as efficiently and as safely as my experience and ability allow, thank you.