What is the bet no assymetric training is purely a cost issue, ie cheaper insurance at the flight school? Nothing more. Another potentially hazardous decision made by someone it will ultimately not effect unless they happen to be onboard on the fateful day these skills are required. Probability low, so risk analysis complete...
I guess we can unfortunately foresee these MPLs coming to us at some stage in the not so distant future with zero flight time, and all sim time. Who is going to stop it? CAD has signed off on 80hrs total flight time already. Is it up to the union to say enough is enough and be proactive in highlighting this? This is more pressing for KA than CX, at least back seat time is an apprenticeship of sorts, minimal handling though, but at least some operational exposure. Obviously the training department are just going to wear it and pass the majority of expensive new hires, so that training/checking filter is useless to curbing an obvious safety issue. The company want zero hours zero cost in the RHS, so they wont stop it until they are told to, bull in the china shop. Their fix for the current command shortage is simply to lower the requirements, problem solved. How low do we go before we all stand around the proverbial smoking hole saying "Wow! How did this happen?!" The only thing stopping this from having happened already is the quality of the aircraft manufacturers, but these planes are getting old, some of them older than the FOs we get to fly them. tick tick tick.