Originally Posted by
SuperFlyCFI
I'm gonna need y'all to upgrade and stay
A lot of my friends are starting to. Every day I change my mind about putting my name in the captain list or take a job is spirit etc call. This weekend I’m kinda feeling like sticking around for the left seat, let’s see if the rest of my trip falls apart and changes my mood.
Originally Posted by
PossibleDeviation
The issue isn't that we aren't running LCA classes. The issue is that by the time those CAs have their Fed rides scheduled, half of the class has class dates at mainline carriers.
In all honesty I don't believe lacking LCAs is the main issue; it's our scheduling. I am currently waiting for CA IOE and on a daily basis I am seeing trips with LCAs in open time that are being assigned to FOs or broken up and split between reserve FOs. How does that make any sense?
A friend became an LCA a while back, finally got his fed ride, and is leaving for a big box hauler. Maybe 6 months actively doing LCA flying.
in regards to the second point. Are these trips getting dropped last minute like due to a callout? I can’t imagine they’ve got LCA trips sitting for weeks in open time. If it’s a last second drop and they need it covered, it makes sense to just farm it out. Or if the FOs on reserve are about to run out the clock for 100hr consolidation. I know they can do IOE assignments pretty last-minute. I had a trip last summer and didn’t even realize the captain was an LCA, until I got a DIOE. It was so close in, my block didn’t even show PEN3, it just went straight to DIOE. I forget exactly when but it couldn’t have been more than a day or two in advance.
Anyway I can only assume they’re farming those out for other reasons? By no means do I defend the company but with how desperate we need you guys in the left seat, there’s gotta be a reason they aren’t giving it to you.