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Work2Live
All CA eligible new hires will complete training as a CA (ie. sim training will be mostly left seat and IOE will be 50 hrs with a fed ride at the end) regardless of what they bid and are awarded. That said, CA eligible new hires can still bid and be awarded FO if available and still get paid as a CA with longevity match. We were told in orientation that the max we would be allowed to stay in the right seat before being forced over to CA would be about 6 months. Hope that helps.
One question I have for anyone in the know is, since we will all be trained as CA's, can we pick up trips in open time from either seat?
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This is a VERY new thing. Honestly so far outside the box from anything Envoy has done. Currently, all captains are required to do right seat familiarization during recurrent. FOs are not a limiting factor right now but there is as far as I know no means of captains picking up on the FO side. As far as those captain qualified FOs go, I would say the same is true. But if you want to fly as a captain then you need to bid as a captain. Not going to be able to pick and choose.