All this talk about following policy f etc is a total waste of time. It simply is never going to happen. If the company were to follow its policies to the letter then it would end up having someone like desk-pilot retrained through an entire type rating on the dash 8 (sorry but a quick sim ride isn't going to do it for everyone) then on your current salary plus relocation allowance go and take some dash fo's job in another base. So potentially £80k+ Dash FO.
The real fight for Balpa should be the pathetic redundancy pay. It is a million miles away from acceptable. Face it the jobs are going you are probably about to be made redundant and as such you should be compensated appropriately. Desk pilot there are some job opportunities for jet pilots go and explore them instead of trying to take a poor dash first officers job?
2014 10 E175
36 Q400
People don't appreciate what a mess this is Flybe still has an un completed order of 35 E175's and all its managed to do with them is park them up in the West Country. Unbelievable.