In the next few weeks and definitely by the beginning of next bid period, the first 24 Captains' bid periods will come online from when the announcement was made, and they will be spread out across all bases - and the next month will be proceeded by another 24 or so. 80% of the new Captains awarded upgrades are August 2015 hires and later.

It truly sucks for those that only want to fly 75 hours, but, it is my opinion, although I may be wrong, that the company will not risk lowering the CA floor to 75 with the busy summer season, or going green on the reserve grid because all that is going to do is cause people to drop their lines below minimums and there's going to be an insane amount of open time - something the company probably can't afford to play Russian roulette with - and not with the 20 new daily AA departures they are adding out of the box.

They said on the latest e-mail that the 24 "indefinite" upgrades was to staff the company up for the busy summer season, which is why they timed it for all these extra Captains to start coming online now.

The 6 new slots appear to be solely for attrition.

Now, some people have moved bases, while some people have left for greener pastures (the attrition has been lower than expected)- but also note that when an MSP vacancy opens, it's the equivalent of adding those slots to LAX because only senior people go to MSP.

Eventually, as we add more flying to our current fleet and attrition picks up, so will the upgrades (obviously...) - but it appears the 24 upgrade/month bandwagon has come and gone, at least for a while, otherwise, they wouldn't have written the E-mail the way they did, or sent it the way they did. You may disagree, but, Compass is known for sending out very few communications like those, but when they do, it's either to announce something major or that of the opposite effect.

And, to answer your question, a little under 2 years.