Originally Posted by
CleCapt
Carrer expectations is a subjective thing.
A UAL pilot will say, I deserve a seniority bump because I would have been a senior wide body Captain the last 5 years of my career at UAL.
A CAL pilot will say, I deserve a bump because I made narrow body Captain at 35, flew left seat for 25 years and then made senior wide body Captain the last 5 years of my career at CAL.
You decide.
Who has a better career expectation.............?
You are making false assumptions, which is why your logic doesn't work. UAL guys aren't going to be Airbus FOs for 30 years then magically become widebody captains for the last 5 years.
Also, CAL pilots aren't all going to be Captains for 30 years.
I have 3 friends hired in the 90s. Two of them tell me that they will NEVER hold widebody Captain. They say they just don't have enough airplanes for all CAL pilots to hold them.
They've all been there 15 years and they are all FOs still.
If the bottom guy on the CAL seniority list got CAL 777 Capt, that doesn't mean all the pilots can all be 777 Capts. WHO WOULD FLY THE OTHER SEATS AND PLANES?
Being a FO for 15 years at CAL and never holding Captain on a Widebody is clearly a career expectation, because 2/3 of the guys I personally know there won't ever hold it.
And most pilots at UAL spend at least 10 years as a widebody Captain, since we have 3 or 4 times as many airplanes. Most of our 95 hires HAVE BEEN CAPTAINS FOR AS MANY AS 10 YEARS.
So I don't care that some 2005 hire just got a Captain bid.
Big deal. You have 15 year FO's just like we do.
Good luck with your career.