Originally Posted by
Ex lurker
You are fat FO's and lean Captains, correct? Their excuse sounds entirely plausible if that is the case.
It takes a month to upgrade a captain.
If the bodies are on property they are on property. There are at least 100 FOs right now that flat out refuse to upgrade due to ridiculously terrible reserve rules and poor treatment from crew scheduling.
Also, we have enough captains for the amount of acft we have on property. The "leanness" so to speak is purely due to crazy inefficient schedules and nit picky micro managing of reserves.
So no, their excuse is not plausible.