Originally Posted by
Excargodog
A regional can’t survive on ‘1 yr as CA, then flow…’
Even if the new CA actually worked the full 1000 flight hours, that would JUST manage to qualify ONE (1) FO to upgrade. Realistically, that CA is NOT going to work 1000 hrs in that one year - not with vacation, sick time, etc., and even if they did that would not take care of the deficiency in SIC hours generated by CAs that got the call from some other major and left early, or worse yet, FOs leaving with 500-800 hrs SIC who would never become CAs at the regional.
it’s a queuing problem that cannot be solved by shoving people in at the bottom. You must retain them at the top for long enough to generate their replacement.
Do you seriously think you’d be seeing things like this if a year in the CA seat would do it?
go jets has no flow thru with anybody. AA (and other legacies with WO’s) will eventually make the easiest path to their flight deck by flying at their regional and flowing. When 3 out of 4 new hires come from their regional they have no problem staffing their airline. Envoy had the worst concessionary bankruptcy contract in the regionals but filled all their classes while others weren’t, why? Because at the time 63% of Ann new AA new hires were coming from Envoy all by itself. Since then they destroyed that flow to share it with the other 2 WO’s
worst case, they make itv1.5 or two years.