You were right Ali Barber, not any more. About ten years ago "outside" flying was indeed seen as in the company's interest in keeping pilots more current and was informally supported, but changes in management and some very negative thinking made the company try hard to make their aircrew stop outside flying. When that failed the company tried to impose conditions on what, where and when, "leigitimising" it by rtrying to get their pilots to sign a bit of paper to that effect. That also failed - I don't know if any of them signed it - but left a nasty unspoken impasse. It's a curious management style, most guys in the "outside" flying game are there because they're really keen, highly motivated aviators, qualities that you'd expect would be really desirable in your workforce, but one senses BWoS tries hard to discourage such things....