Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
On the VX side early August 2012 DOH is the plug CA. I don’t know about lineholder, that changes every month with increase/decrease in flying hours and pilot leaves. For the remainder of the year the new 48 upgrades are all on Boeing’s. I think last time their most junior CA plug was a May 2013 hire. Lots of SEA FO bypassers.
The wild card is the SLI. Regardless if you’re hired now you’d be about 3,000 with only ~625 retirements in the next 10 yrs. You will be a FO longer than any of the other big 6 carriers.
This is assuming zero growth over those 10 years. Also, isn't SWA a 10+ year upgrade? I'd think that as long as AAG doesn't shrink the fleet, upgrades would continue at their current pace. Even 4% growth is still growth. All the 400's are gone and the Bus is here to stay until 2024 at the minimum, so all airframes from now till then are growth right? I was told in CQ that there will be 9-12 sims in SEA where the current Ops parking lot is. We currently only have 5 in there now. At least it sounds like they're beefing up the school house for more training and growth.