Originally Posted by
Rmk1991
Not new to the industry at all. Just had some old friends starting at envoy bragging about how the upgrade on the 175 is going to be way less because apparently FOs cannot switch to the 175? It was something ridiculous like that and I just wanted to hear from someone who's been here more than a week. You think if someone were to get hired right now they'd upgrade in 2 though? How do you figure?
They've got it wrong. They won't upgrade sooner because they're on the 175.
However, what they were probably excited about is moving up quickly in relative seniority. If they can staff the 175 with newhires, they won't need to displace current FO's over to it. Newhires would then hold lines, weekends off, good vacations, while current FO's stuck on the 145 wait for the upgrade with longer reserve and worse schedules.