Originally Posted by
Excargodog
No, the issue is how they generate enough SIC hours to get enough FOs the SIC hours required to upgrade, when they are losing CAs with less than 1000 hrs of 121 TPIC and FOs with no 121 TPIC at all. YOU CANNOT GENERATE A SINGLE HOUR OF 121 SIC time without a CA in the left seat for that hour. And it may not be a problem that they CAN solve.
the only thing they can do is hope and pray that mainline hiring will slow down. It is shrinkage until then.