Originally Posted by
gloopy
While its true that airline hiring departments generally do understand (quite well actually) the timing and particulars of cyclical regional attrition, and they probably won't look down on you for not upgrading because you didn't have the chance, its still no excuse to camp out in the right seat for years doing nothing else for your career but log RJ FO time.
That also (in my opinion) applies to multi-year RJ Captains, who won't make a move "because they have a good schedule", and then wonder why nobody wants them after their sweet gig shuts down.