Doesn’t really sound like the company is very confident that they’ll have nearly enough captains from FO upgrading on property. At least for another 1-2 years.
My idea if I was in recruiting would be to offer some sort of TDY set up for the guys getting forced into LGA. I think they’d get a lot more HVA recruits if they could offer positive space to and from as well as hotels.
Not sure how to make that work contractually. Maybe home based pilots?