Originally Posted by
baronbvp
I looked through pages of threads but didn’t see this topic. What is the average time to upgrade to captain, and how does it vary by aircraft type and base? It is reasonable?
Don’t worry about it. It won’t happen as predicted.
I was hired in the middle of a hiring boom, and told five years to captain. 4 years later we were in bankruptcy.
I interviewed then with TWA, who told me; “In five years one half the seniority list will be retired, and in 7 years 3/4 will be retired”.
Riiiight... in 10 years the entire seniority list was gone.
I didn’t take the job..couldn’t handle the “B” scale.
This is something you have no control of, just like the amount of the next profit sharing check.