Originally Posted by
Montcalm
What are the stats of people getting called these days?
4000h TT, 1300h 121 TPIC, check airman, aviation science Bachelor's with a 4.0 GPA, no failures, no skeletons, early 30's, 5 internal recs (including an A350 LCA).
Crickets
Are you flying for a Delta Connection Regional?
Because the issue is, they need to be able to upgrade their FOs to CA in order for the regional feed to survive. If you have 1300 hrs of 121 TPIC, that means IN THEORY you allowed 1.3 FOs to become upgrade eligible, but the COVID reality is something different. A lot of non-upgradeable (less than 1000 hrs SIC) people went ACMI or ULCC. Those 121 SIC hours were lost to the regional world. A lot of regional CA’s with LESS THAN 1000 hrs TPIC have been hired by majors. Someone has to pick up the slack for them. They need to be replaced too.
Right now most regionals are in a death spiral for CAs, which is why many regionals are offering hefty bonuses for DECs and near DECs, longevity credit for 121 time at other regionals, even base of choice for DEC in the case of Skywest. Legacies are metering flow (or whatever they chose to call their flavor of flow) because otherwise they are destroying their own feed. It isn’t just Delta, they all seem to be doing it. The quick route to the legacies seems to be to apply to the legacies you DON’T support, or do a touch and go at a ULCC.
If you are a regional CA supporting any legacy right now they’d seem to prefer you stay right where you are while they rob CAs from a competitors regional. It isn’t personal, just business.