Originally Posted by
burninturbin
They will want you to uograde while in ground school. They arent advertising street Capt, but if you come with 1000 121, your upgrading before your done withground school. With that said, you still have to do FO OE, then your upgrade to CA
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Not necessarily accurate. You will upgrade after FO OE, if you are awarded a base with a Captain vacancy you can hold.
The decisions made by displaced MSP pilots (due to the MSP 200 base closing) will greatly influence all this. Quite a few very senior FOs in MSP have been homesteading in the right seat because they are crack smokers and want to live in MSP no matter the cost. (just kidding, MSP is great, but oh geeeeze the snow! Ya know? ) Some of those pilots might see this displacement as a sign that it's time to upgrade? who knows?
My main point is-a Captain coming to 9E should not assume they will get an instant upgrade at this time. Bid JFK/LGA Captain and yes, you will most likely upgrade very quickly, but you may sit right seat for a while depending on the timing of things.
There is no "street Captain" training program and I don't see them going thru the trouble of creating one until it becomes absolutely necessary, because it will be expensive to develop and implement and
the training department is barely keeping up with their current load.
And keep a good attitude about being an FO for a bit. Nobody at 9E wants to hear otherwise.
Just my take as a new-hire FO and previous 121 Captain.