Originally Posted by
Dunkin
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?
Because people are telling them to wait until they won't have to be on reserve.
Yes, the reserve here is so bad that people are willing to not double their salary in order to avoid it.