Originally Posted by
Tankerdz
You're likely not going to see almost half of the bonuses. You'll get the IOE bonus and 1st year, but you'll upgrade before the 2nd/3rd year bonus. Really it's just a lie to inflate the bonus to make it look better, but they'll force you to upgrade before year 2 especially with how bad they need CAs right now.
There is nothing in the TSA contract that they can force you to upgrade. You can stay in the right seat as long as you want. That is why they had to allow the last class of upgrades to keep their FO bonus structure. Guys were staying in the right seat until they got the entire bonus.