Originally Posted by
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Anyone joining recently, with sufficient experience for commands, can be the captain of an A319/320/321 within a year. Because so few people who have escaped to LH can stomach the idea of returning! .
You'll be more tuned in to Sort Haul than I am but I must admit from reading elsewhere that the balance of opinion was that 2016/command in under a year shock event was an outlier and that next year will see a move back to some form of normality - as long as someone doesn't tamper with the rules. If the company decides to meddle with freezes and decides to unfreeze junior P2s to go RHS to LHS Airbus whilst freezing those on Longhaul who have bid to move to Airbus LHS then of course all bets are off (it's costs and that darned business plan again).
FWIW regardless of the strength of their stomachs I do know of some Long Haul P2s who bid for a move to shorthaul for command.