Dr Dre,
I agree with you.
Any "new type" conditions will become the majority in short time.
It's only false hope and pilot ego that any new type will provide large fleet growth.
Tino La Spina has just recently confirmed managements zeal for codeshare partners flying routes on behalf of QF and how much passengers love the connections on EK to Europe, LAN to South America, North America with AA etc.
Pilots have been sucked in to believing that the 787 new type EBA will suddenly lead to promotions and growth. You think a bit of overtime sacrificed will suddenly terminate the EK partnership and have QF going back to Europe?
I can understand pilots are desperate for promotions after management failures lead us to big losses, RINs, VR etc.
Perhaps they need to consider the very real possibility that the new type is simply a replacement type.
Accordingly they need to consider if the deal is acceptable if you get RINed in your CURRENT rank as a best case scenario.