Originally Posted by
Shiner
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.
This is true.
New hires on the 175 will have a lot better QOL a lot sooner due to rapid relative seniority movement on the 175 fleet, since our current FO's can't bid it. It is really good for a new hire, sucks for our current pilots who won't move as fast on the other fleets.