Originally Posted by
CLT Guy
Even if we could hire street captains, there is absolutely no need right now or in the near future. About half of the people in each new hire class has 1000 hours of 121 time. Several of these people have been captains previously at other airlines. These are the guys that are upgrading in 8-10 months. Couple that with the FO's that were hired over a year ago that have not upgraded yet, and there are plenty of people to upgrade.
We are upgrading 20 a month well into the year 2017 and you can't force FOs to bid captain even if they have the time so while it looks okay for now we have a long way to go and after each captain bid the trend towards new hire captains is getting closer and closer. The junior captain went from March to June and then to August 2014 in just two bids. Why didn't all of those FOs with the 1000 hrs bid captain? Why did it drop to August 2014 so quickly?