Originally Posted by
morerightrudder
Originally Posted by
magnus0322
Q400 senior FOs are all June 2012 hires. With the current shrinking of Chautauqua, upgrades here will continue to be 6-7 years. If you got hired on the Q today, you would have to wait until the senior FOs upgrade before you would see movement. You will end up as a junior reserve pilot until then. Make sense?
Q new hires may bid into the 170 after two years. So it'd be at least two years for any meaningful movement.
You serious?
Ask some of the current Q400 FOs how that transition will go for them. The first Q class was June 2012, I'm sure in June 2014 the company will gracefully waive the CBA and allow them to leave the airplane that has given them the hardest time to staff....