Originally Posted by
jungle driver
I also disagree! if you take into account all the awards that have been release to this point, through October, a mid Dec '15 hire would have about 90 FO's ahead of them to upgrade. Assuming conservatively only 20 bypass upgrade, and no FO's leave ahead of you (unlikely) that leaves 70. At 10 upgrades a month they will upgrade in may '18 (2 years 5 months). If they increase to 18 per month thats a Feb '18 upgrade (2 years 2 months) and I think those are fairly conservative numbers. In reality they should probably be doing 20+ upgrades a month to keep from falling further behind, 20+ CA critical trips in the last 4 days!
So after todays call I feel like a revision is needed to my post from the other day...
At 9 upgrades a month a Dec '15 hire is looking at a May '18 upgrade thats 2 years 5 months. With 6 upgrades a month that same newhire is probably looking at something like a September '18 upgrade which is 2 years 9 months.
its really a catch 22, we have to slow upgrades because we can't attracted enough FO's, but by increasing upgrades times we are making it even harder to get newhires in the door. Its really a no win situation and like several people have already said, until the company steps in and sweetens the pot for potential newhires things will only continue to go down hill.