As I was saying in the other thread; GoJet has an abundance of Captains from the hiring of street captains. GoJet needs more FOs but the recruitment and retention package is insufficient. The only real incentive at GoJet is the quick upgrade, but that is anything but guaranteed.

A possibility exist that GoJet is hiring street captains with the intention of using them as FOs, which is still cheaper than offering 200% critical pay to current FOs. At the same time GoJet runs upgrade classes of 8 or so giving the illusion a quick upgrade is possible, but only actually upgrading 50% of the class or less, which is the actual number they need. Now these FOs go back to the right seat for an indeterminant amount of time with a training failure which further decreases their marketability.

The flip side to that is I have heard some of the stories coming out of the training department and there is no doubt that some of these FOs are failing on their own merit.