Originally Posted by cowboypilot
The thing I will say about AE is that they do have a history of long upgrade times but with the amount of people they are hiring I would have to believe this will have to go down.
Also a lot of times the airlines with highest upgrade times are usually the airilnes people want to fly for, take for example horizon they have high upgrade times but that is because it is one of the few regionals people want to make careers at, and it is the highest paid regional.
you need to look at the whole company not just upgrade times
plus there are very few majors hiring so you get a quick upgrade and then you have no where to go. so look at the whole picture not just upgrade time
Hiring people at the bottom doesn't mean that upgrade time shortens. Only two things can shorten upgrades: new airplanes and captains leaving. If anything, the hiring they are doing will lengthen upgrades because you are putting more people between you and the seniority to upgrade. I agree you need to look at more than upgrades because the company that upgrades you in 2 years now might have an 8 year upgrade time a year from now. Regionals are not exactly stable. You just have to take a stab and stick it out.