Originally Posted by
S4User
Also, why aren't F/Os upgrading to Captain?
It's the QoL hit. Sunny survived for a long time as a niche airline where you held a glimmer of hope of one day holding day trips out of MSP. Those days are obviously long and so is the appeal. As it stands now an FO upgrading would be throwing away any semblance of QoL they have for little to possibly no financial reward. Recently (as a stop gap due to attrition) planning has been forced to build reserve lines with slightly more than the minimum off days (Minimum here being 10 days off) as an attempt to improve morale. Scheduling continues to willfully violate the contract because they're in a staffing crunch. You could still just go to SWA for example and have more days off on reserve than even the temporary measure here aimed at improving morale, and with a far better contract in literally every section to boot. You'd also have about the same amount of MSP day trip flying. For FO's there's really no carrot at sunny right now to upgrade rather than building PIC time.