Originally Posted by
CLT Guy
All of the DECs should have known and expected this. The last estimate was there are 150 FOs right now with 1000 SIC time that want to upgrade and are senior to the DECs.
Jumping the seniority list and upgrading out of order will cause this every time.
We did expect to be at the bottom of the list and to be on reserve. We accepted that. However we were mislead. The company was selling all this talk about growth and how even on reserve DECs would still be flying. I was even told I would hold CLT as a captain within 6 months.
Is it my fault for believing the hype? Yes absolutely. So now I am correcting my mistake by leaving.
However it is also the companies fault for misleading people when all they really wanted was as many captains as they could get on property before the flow snapshot was taken.