Originally Posted by
njd1
As for the CQF, it's not really a thing right now because every CA is needed to serve in the left seat. I don't really see it becoming a thing again until the "grand rebalance" occurs, and maybe not even then since there is a desire among the pilot group to eliminate the concept in the new contract. We can only hope.
You've met scheduling right? They'll happily put 20 FOs on airport reserve just because they can. When it starts getting balanced what makes you think they'll be benenevolent and not throw the bottom 5% back into the sim to qualify on the right seat? Not to mention bringing it back allows the company to hang it over the pilot group's head to spend leverage to get rid of it in contract negotiations coming up.