Originally Posted by
sailingfun
The standard gouge for a good airline career was always 12 years to make CA, 18 years for Widebody CA and 20 Years for Widebody international. 10 years at our most senior base is actually pretty good but off the top of my head it’s less than that on the last few bids.
So I will need some help here because I obviously was not around for the past 30+ years, but with the exception of 2000-2001 hires, couldn’t most pilots at DL hold CA by the 12 year mark?
Airlinefiles.com has a jr CA snapshot going all the way back to 2005 and it is usually under 10 years (again excluding those hired from 2000-2001, which by any objective standard probably had the worst career trajectory and seniority progression of any pilots at DL hired after deregulation)
historically speaking, hasn’t jr CA typically been around 60-65% systemwide seniority? I wonder what keeps causing it to drop to pilots with 90% company seniority recently?
18 years to WB CA is probably not going to happen for most at DL. Im projected to be in the seniority range of WB CA plug around the 25 year mark and would be thrilled if that ends up happening.
for someone hired today it will take closer to 27-28 years to hit that number.