Originally Posted by
seattlepilot
They just announced a major displacement to ca side to ewr. I am guessing that will open a lot of vacancies.
One good thing about rah (it sounds like an oxymoron but it's not) is base trades. If you don't get it right out of training you can do the base trade.
It will not open any vacancies. It is a voluntary displacement. The only reason the company did it this way was to avoid actually having to upgrade people. Over the last few months we have actually gotten more airplanes on property than pilots. This means they cannot afford to take anyone offline line to upgrade them. Some air frames have 3 total reserves system wide for FOs.
In order to upgrade here you need to have ~1500 people behind you on the seniority list. At the rate we are currently attracting pilots (~20 a month) combined with the fact that most of the attrition is due to FOs bouncing to places like Mesa and Trans States it means you will be looking at at least a 7-8 year upgrade. This place is slowly burning to the ground and the last place you would ever want to find yourself is at the end of our seniority list.