Originally Posted by headhunter

I'm an EWR FO: started 21May18. I was SC reserve through Feb, held a reserve line in March, LC reserve in April, and holding a line this month and in June.



The switch from short on FOs to short on CAs happened in March, so block time is getting lower for reserve FOs. That said, hopefully the new hire/upgrade machine will continue to spin up and this airline will start to move closer to what other regionals look like over the next year, in that the move from new hire FO on reserve, to line holder, to upgrade will shrink down to something under 3 years. XJT just absorbed the last of the ASA captains over to the 145, so the normal FO to CA upgrades should restart relatively soon. I'm hoping to be upgrading by this time next year, if I haven't moved on.