Originally Posted by
AerisArmis
We get our first 777 in 09. When the first bid comes out, I suspect that every Capt award will go to a 60+ guy. If you can't have 2 60+ on an international flight, I wonder how the company will handle the 60+ guys who bid the right seat? I see lots of passover pay and a scheduling nightmare for the company. This could get real interesting.
How many of the ROPEs were steam guage drivers that never saw glass? A good IQ test would be to see if those gents bid ANY glass. I am NOT old guy bashing here FH.. In my schoolhouse days, it was my non-scientific observation that the difficulty transitioning to glass for the first time was nearly an exponential curve for those closer to "the regulated age". 200% training was more common, more failures, etc... I think the old glass guys would be better off going back to their former MD11 and A300 spots. Many ex steam guage drivers will have a very hard time with this whole mess. "May you live in interesting times."
