Originally Posted by PeezDog

Gloopy, thanks for help! Well the position is basically a street captain position, however you could also be use as an FO. They are calling it a Captain Qualified First Officer. Its the deal TSA is offering. According to pilots who I spoke too, they only have about 50 pilots currently qualified to upgrade and they are getting about 40 airplanes this year with about a 350 pilot list. So they'd use you on reserve for both positions and when you hold a line, you could pick up open time for the left seat. Holding a full captain seat should occur in about 6 months due to the large amount of growth, but in the meantime you'd still get PIC time. Plus, first year pay would be $43 an hour instead of 23 and if you get stuck as an FO for some reason, second year pay is $53 an hour. However, if I stay where I am, my captain pay rate would be $10 an hour more, but it would be on reserve, where I'd be holding a line as TSA getting more then MMG. I'd also like to be an LCP , which I cannot due here until I upgrade.

So, its a tough call and I keep flip flopping. I do enjoy my super senior FO QOL currently. 3 weeks vacation, weekends and holidays off (until I upgrade), full vested 401K, comfortable with the airline and like the bidding system, to name a few things. Also, reserve time at my current airline would be much longer when I upgrade then it would be at TSA. With that new info, does that change what you think?