Originally Posted by
tsimmns927
Question for those not in the airline world yet. When the TT was raised from 250 to 1500 for ATP, was the upgrade time to CA raised as well or was it still 1k hours to make CA and did you even have many FOs upgrading right at 1250 TT hours.
And if the TT is lowered, how does one think that affects ULCC hiring. So many people seem to be going regional FO to ULCC FO. Would that hurt or help.
ATP was always 1500, you just didn’t need an ATP to be an FO.
No airline was upgrading with that kind of time in recent history. Lots of places had 10+ year upgrades, so the number of hours you had really didn’t factor in. It was about seniority. As I recall, Eagle required 3000 hours to upgrade… until they were lacking candidates, then they didn’t.