What? 10 months? I don't think so.

Our most junior LAX Captain was hired 10/25/15, so pretty much exactly a year ago. The ONLY reason that even surprisingly happened, is because the company at the time was indefinitely upgrading 24 people per month, so senior FOs were not in a rush to bid for the slots. When that E-mail came out saying the gravy train would stop, followed by a notice of vacancy that only had 6 upgrades, Compass' "quick upgrade" vanished into a *poof*. Quick being the 3-6 month upgrade.

If that 10/25/15 guy would have submit his bid to upgrade on the next notice of vacancy he would have still been an FO today with about 100 FOs senior to him waiting in line to upgrade.

That guy will be on Captain reserve here for maybe 2.5 years from DOH.

I'd say upgrades as of now are at least 18-20 months for someone with zero 121, and just as much for someone with 121 time, and I say that only because everyone and their momma that was hired first half of 2015 are finally getting their 1000 hours, and that's a long list to go through before anyone hired today gets their upgrade slot.