Originally Posted by
saturn
I must sound pretty entitled!
I hear one side saying 250 another 300+. Not panicking, or looking for assurance. Just skeptical 250 upgrades (350 CA) can adequately staff 63 airframes.
I am very confident you will upgrade in 2015. If I had to guess a month, I would say around November 2015, possibly earlier. We have many people at this airline that do not, and still will not meet upgrade requirments when their number comes up. We even have some hired over a year ago that don't meet the requirements.
What you need to hope for, is that this airline will have enough pilots on line by late 2015, so that they have the staffing to allow the fo's to upgrade. If we are behind on FO staffing, we won't be able to run the upgrade classes as soon as the company, or you, would like. The more time that passes, the more FO's that become qualified(who previously were not).