Originally Posted by
dfwflyboy
I'm pretty sure the company wanted to stop the upgrades now... they are forced to upgrade 8 per the LOA, so as soon as the date hits...bye bye upgrades...AND hello canceled position notices...hence why they will push it back until post-november when they can cancel the awards. Moral of the story...update your applications and get out.
Actually, they don't want to. They want to bring the upgrade time down to attract more people here. If we shut down, they don't have jobs either.
The problem with the summer months is the summer schedule. We need FO's online before pulling FO's offline to train as captains. It takes 2-3 months to train a FO. It takes 2-3 weeks to train a captain. The new hire classes have been much higher than they were before LOA 14 and 15. if we can continue to attract new hires, they will not cancel it. Hopefully, things will take its course by then and we won't need it anymore as the natural progression of upgrades will be back to normalcy.