SV 787s
I was told by a SV captain that they plan to use existing SV E170 crew to move them over to the 787, as they phase in the 787s and phase out the E170s. However, there is the issue of needing seasoned international captains for the 787s, and I'm not sure how they plan to address that. The common type rating between the T7 and the 787 along with the "11-day" differences course make it logical to get at least an initial set of experienced T7 SV captains qualified on the 787 as TREs, TRIs, etc.
I agree about SV trying to keep it all in-house to better control therir brand, and that leaves AAI out of the picture for now. The bigger problem for SV is to attract enough qualified FDC to account for all of its expansion and retirements.