Originally Posted by sandlapper223

You're right. It's too much trouble. Any pilot who wins such a bid would have to receive training and then simulator - then a pond crossing with a check airman so qualified before being able to fly one over. Can you imagine the logistical nightmare for the company? I agree - it's in the contract - but until such time the company exhausts all such means to use management flying for these projects (which won't happen) - we are all stuck with normal line flying.

Besides, do you really want to be deadheaded over in business class, stay in French chalets drinking red wine and eating stinky cheese? Followed by being wooed by the Airbus staff, dining on Chateaubriand, champagne, foie gras, and snails, then to be told the plane will not be ready for a while? Only to rinse and repeat for a week while you tour Europe with your wife or girlfriend and wait? I mean, who wants to wait like this? What a disaster.