Originally Posted by
gloopy
I am concerned with that as well. Additionally, some obviously want regional saftey improvements to be "paid for" by gutting huge numbers of international relief FO's at mainlines with deep Europe 2 pilot ETOPS and 2 man island turns for everyone. That would "mitigate" a whole year's worth of the biggest retirements at each mainline and no one is raising cain about it.
Maybe I'm mistaken but I believe most of Europe is more than 9 hours return to USA so there will still be a need for RP's. We might lose England but on the domestic side we might pick up a need for more pilots.