Originally Posted by
AboveAndBeyond
Here's a prediction...
January upgrade classes will go fairly senior as many have been waiting until after the holidays to upgrade.
Shortly thereafter, there will be a new captain incentive or "Endeavor-like" pay rates that will cause everyone to want to upgrade and it will stay senior. There will be FOs that had bypassed that regret bypassing because they are stuck as FOs and can't hold upgrade and they will complain. With improved reserve rules, reserve life of a captain will be pretty good.
This happened here not long ago and is being set up to happen again.
Like my grandma always said... "You can't steal in slow motion". Getting a 3 month upgrade is stealing (in a good way). Grab it and get the PIC time.
This is exactly why I upgraded as soon as I was eligible. You never know what tomorrow may hold. My thought was sitting reserve as a captain was better then line holding as an fo, pic time. But that's not for everyone.