Thread: Eight Captain upgrades a month? Do the math.
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Old 03-08-2018, 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by AirBat View Post
Post of the year. They only are throttling temporarily and it'll resume especially when they get right seat qual captain. But as you said they're short FO, so what are they supposed to do, upgrade them to CA and be even shorter? Yet they can't just not upgrade either. That's why it's 8. It's the minimum that lets them kick the can down the road a bit. But they can CA upgrade fast if they need to, it is a tiny footprint unlike initial new hire FO. If they find themselves a bit short on CA they can literally do 3 classes of 12 in a month and boom, no more shortage.
If they are right and left seat qualified, there’s no problem...you can fly them either seat. So you have an additional CA who can act as FO.

My guess is FOs will upgrade, and find themselves still sitting right seat again, but wearing 4 stripes. They might fly some left seat too, the question is how often.
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