Originally Posted by
uavking
It's a baseline figure. Off the top of my head, United has said the average civilian new hire comes with something like 5-6000 TT and over 1000 121 PIC.
(Cue someone chiming in with tales of some 25 y/o FO they know who got on at UA/DL...)
Yes, that's exactly what I said. That's also why I had the "" there.
It takes 2-3 years to be marginally competitive (with the 1000TPIC). So you won't lose half a decade waiting for flow, you might lose a few years.
All of this is 100% speculation. We have two numbers, one says 5.5 years, one says 9 years. Both are wrong. Truth is somewhere in the middle.