Originally Posted by MrSkywest

Does Skywest have minimum times to bid captain? The bottom capt on recent bid was about #2375. Looking at the next 1000 FOs about 325 are on the 175. If very few of them can upgrade in the near future due to lack of hours or flying, and if they continue to upgrade about 50 a month then that would bring the upgrade time down to about a year and a half for the CRJ people. If many of those don't upgrade then it might be a year?

Things will be moving fast from what I see. The most likely thing to hold up these upgrades seems like it might just be lack of newhire FOs and not lack of captain slots.