Originally Posted by
Bill Lumberg
111 senior Captains means a huge ripple in training events. When one guy falls off the top as a 777 Capt, a 767 Captain moves up to 777, and a 737-800 Captain moves up to 767, and a MD80 Captain moves up to 737 Captain, and a 777 FO moves up to MD80 Capt, and a 767 FO moves up to 777FO, and a 737-800 FO moves up to 767 FO, etc etc. And that is for 1 pilot retiring. Throw in 111, and the amount of people that are now in training, and waiting for IOE, etc, means they will be short down the line somewhere. Very expensive.
I am not an airline pilot but a potential airline investor, and I don't like the fact that a retirement of a 777 Captain causes so many training events. To minimize the training events some small tweaks can be made: such as giving the pay parity between 12-year pay rates for both a 738 Captain and a 777 FO; increasing the pay scale to 25 years for the top quartile of positions (777 Captain, 777 FO, 767 Captain and 757 Captain); and restrict the upgrades that some pilots can make (for example a 777 FO can only upgrade to a 777 Captain).