Thread: Upgrade times
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Old 04-18-2021 | 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by RJSAviator76
Upgrades have traditionally appeared to dance around 60-62% seniority and almost exclusively ended up in OAK. The more senior guys may choose to lance at the western bases and try to pick up captain trips back East so they aren’t commuting.

Eeyore, pretty sure you’re buying.... [emoji12]
You’re correct that upgrade had been running at about 60%. However, I agree with Zap that after the long Covid pause, those that were on the fence about continuing to bypass upgrade will likely now go at their first opportunity. Typically in the past before 2010 or so, upgrade was about 55%. I expect as we try to go back to that historically more productive manning model that you will see upgrade fall back into that range again. I think upgrade will remain at around a decade on property for at least the next 3-4 years until we really start to hit the big retirement years around 2025 or so and then drop to around the 6-8 year range.
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