Originally Posted by
cr700
Also, looking at the planned upgrades for 2016, 250, that factors in and works out to be exactly a 2.5 year upgrade for you.
A piece of advice. It's great to get information anywhere you can, but you'll soon realize that here there are some who cannot stand seeing that Envoy is having great success with the flow. They may have taken a long time to upgrade at Envoy and when they see are new guy come on board and upgrade in 2.5 years, it rubs them the wrong way. It shouldn't, as they are flowing as well, but for some reason it doesn't sit well with them.
Just focus on your training and doing the best job that you can. Envoy has a great contract and you will have good quality of life as you move up the seniority ladder and directly into that seat at AA
I would love to see a new FO upgrade in 2.5 years. Unfortunately, our current upgrade time is now longer than 8 years and climbing. There is ZERO evidence to suggest 2.5 can actually happen. Upgrade bids are non-existent. All FOs are stagnant; the only FO movement happens from senior FOs leaving the company. Again, I would love to see a new Envoy pilot experience quick career improvements: there is just nothing to back up these overly optimistic claims.
Also, with almost every "regional" getting contractual gains in the past four months, we now have the WORST contract except for Mesa and maybe PSA. That's too bad, since Eagle used to be relatively decent.