Putting on my seldom used "devil's advocate" hat for a moment...
I would surmise that most of our best internal potential candidates are not far off from flowing. Not that I prefer to see outsiders hired direct to the CP post (I don't), but doing so might be because of trying to avoid a continual revolving door of chief pilots.
*Takes off devil's advocate hat.*
You don't even have to be line qualified now? Hilarious.