Probably very true, but to the RATP with 1250 hours who came aboard in the latter part of the panic hiring who actually NEEDS to get hours to be competitive when the peak of the retirement wave opens the doors wider for hiring at the majors, long reserve times with little actual flying could be a career killer, because unlike a couple other legacies, AS won’t have huge numbers of those mandatory retirements.

This is sort of like the coach burning a players redshirt without actually giving them enough playing time to develop them.