Sitting home (actually laying.,) after getting banged up.
Gives me time to look at things and do numbers-
52 FO’s took the upgrade this vacancy. Of which. 10 are “supplemental”.. ie, PI’s?
net of 42 new Capts.

We were told that we were taking delivery of (roughly) one new aircraft every 3 days..

There is no way we are keeping up with new Captains to fill these new left seats.
The only way to operate this new aircraft, absent of a new UPA (which needs to fix NUMEROUS things..) is for the company to work both line holders and reserves to the max of both FAR limits and contractual limits.

Congrats on the new Captains…
Hope they understand that-
Barring a new UPA in the next few months, their lives will be hell- on reserve under these current rules. ESPECIALLY if you commute.
IF we have an ILC23 in the next few months.. they will be on reserve for at least the next 2 or 3 years while mid level FO’s bid in, keeping them at the bottom.
Gamble either way, hope the wager was worth the reward.

Motch