Originally Posted by
FR8Hauler
Sorry it Ain't gonna happen. There is no way the company is going to retrain a bunch of old guys to go back to the capt seat for a year or two. You might get some passover pay which should make you happy. It would make me happy if I could get MD-11 capt pay and carry the coffee jug.
You're right, it would make me happy to get widebody captains' passover pay and continue to be super senior in the back seat. But not as happy as getting paid for operating out of the left seat. Besides, I think that someone did the math and the break even point, for the company to recoup their training costs (you being in school and not flying revenue trips, simulator costs and instructor costs, etc) is somewhere about 9 months. So it might just be do-able to give the company a year or two in exchange for being reactivated into a left (or right) seat. Besides, I believe that you've got two years from your last flight to again go back to your old seat, and still be considered "current", thereby only requiring some minimum simulator time, a sim check, some minimum IOE, and finally a line check. The whole thing could easily be done in two weeks, again, if you were still "current." And besides, we don't carry the coffee jug anymore. Get with the program, will ya.
