Originally Posted by
The Juice
The streets are littered with the "quick upgrade plans" of regional pilots.
Try taking a straw poll of regional FOs who were hired at the time of quick upgrades, only to continue to warm the right seat years later.
Considering in '08 and '09, no mainline was hiring and no regional pilots could move on, every FO at that time had their upgrade time increase by two years.
The same can be said in '75, '80, '01 and probably a bunch of other times oil was short and/or expensive.