Originally Posted by
qball
I seem to remember NWA had a minimum amount of hours in the right seat of an NWA aircraft (type did not matter). 1000 or 1500 hours...don't quite remember...before you could upgrade to CA. Can anyone recall if that was the case?
I think Delta has that too... 500 hours unless they have done away with that requirement.... to lazy to look it up.
I once flew with an Express Captain who was still bitter because he was a PAN AM professional engineer that came over to Delta and when the union negotiated them spots on the pilot list if they had the credentials, went out on a LOA to get his tickets then came to Delta and had to fly 500 hrs as copilot before bidding captain. I was too new to fully care, but somehow he thought he had been wronged in the whole transaction.