Originally Posted by
wmupilot85
Not really a lie. That hiring period they are speaking about is for the ERJ, not the CRJ. As far as recruiting goes, they are unsure of someone is going to the CRJ or ERJ, so they will state a period that they know of on their own side (may be an ERJ pilot who responded as the recruiter).
Let me post the entire thing. I know the ERJ side is not upgrading and allowing newly-upgraded captains to voluntarily fly as Fos. It sounds like someone is taking the two different sides and trying to cherry pick the best case scenarios out of the two airlines. This sounds very much like a lie and intentionally done to get people to get into the airline, either crj or erj.
We are working on a number of initiatives to improve our upgrade times, and we’ve already made improvements by allowing newly-upgraded captains to voluntarily fly as Fos. That allowed us to upgrade more, supported our operation and allowed new captains to fly more hours in both seats. Even with that, our new hires can expect to upgrade in four years or less. Some of our current pilots are experiencing much longer upgrades, but that won’t continue much longer. We didn’t hire between 2007-2011, during the economic downturn, and so we had a gap in upgrades too.
Also, if what you say is true about the hiring during those years, then the CRJ side will not have a major drop in upgrade time anytime in the future. That would only happen on the ERJ side with the 10 year upgrade dropping down to a 7 year upgrade that the recruiters are talking about.