Originally Posted by
joek
What makes you think PSA is giddy about getting Envoys 700's?
If those 700's do end up over there it will cause street captains because you guys don't have enough FOs that can upgrade. Many chased a "quick upgrade promise" and what's about to happen is the senior FOs from lots of other regionals are about to come in and take all the available CA slots as street captains. there goes the quick upgrade. Good luck with the 4 interviews per month for more movement.
Meanwhile at Envoy the company plans to eventually begin upgrading while advertising a 250-300 pilot per year flow creating the need for 250-300 new captains each year, not including the guys going to UA and DL. Their plan should have you go from new hire to AA in under six years, not the 20 year interview wait PSA offers. Great, if your career goal is to work for PSA for two decades.
Your MEC is so scared of the 700's actually coming over that they're trying to beg ALPA national to ask AAG to send pilots with the planes because you guys can't staff them, can't upgrade, and will throttle your trickle of a flow.