Dan Buster,
We don't stick together, for decades each pilot in CX does what's best for them. Many years ago the company said commands are open to everyone who's been at least a day in the company but it's on local housing in HKG or F/O paysale as a skipper on a base.
Hundreds jumped at it to get in the left seat, irrelevant of the money the company was offering, including some who went straight from S/O to skipper. So much for everyone bleating currently that the HKPA isn't enough. Of course it's enough, back then with the blessing of the AOA, we all showed it was.
If the company offered future commands being offered with the proviso that you have to go into training once you're checked out left seat, do you think many would apply in spite of the AOA?