Originally Posted by
Southern Fried
Even at It's peak in hiring and upgrading, the least desirable turboprop upgrade was 10 months. Guess what? No DECs, and everyone who wanted to could upgrade, in seniority order. We were training north of 60 new hires per month and no need for DECs during a time we were accepting 3 new jets per month. The 175 is going very senior.
LASA side ran a few DECs in the EMB-120. They also had a number of FOs who met the upgrade minimums get “displaced” into the left seat right after IOE.