Originally Posted by
Bob Loblaw
Currently on the 175, FOs are holding a line about 2 months out of training. Mileage may vary in the future.
Yes, those FO have been in the pipeline since early Fall 2016, those hired in the coming classes will not experience the same fate.
10 FO from DFW E75 were awarded an upgrade on this bid, out of the next 200+ in line from most junior upgrade, around 20 are from DFL. Unless we keep seeing high bypass numbers, the most senior probationary pilot today, that sits on the top 35 on the E75 will not be attend training for an upgrade until mid 2018. That means that the DFL list isn't likely to have a whole lot of movement in 2017. The reason it has moved so fast is because we have a growing fleet and for the last 6 months we have seen 5 to 8 FO leave the status for upgrade training on a monthly basis. 14 to 16 FO finish training every month on average and 5 to 8 leave with an increase of 8 lines on average, this creates 15+ new line holders per month. Moving forward our attrition will not be as high per month, so we going to see around 10 new line holders for the next 6 months, currently there are around that many FO in the pipeline plus those sitting reserve currently. Then in 2018 the line list will move rather quickly specially when you get to the spring 2015 hires.