Originally Posted by
Neosporin
I wouldn’t decide anything on what SWA or we do if or not they don’t fly interisland. Especially not the quick upgrade! That’s not gonna be the case, a trickle if any but not the volume of the last year and how junior it went. I don’t see many upgrading within their 24 months equipment freeze in the near future. The training backlog and bubble we were in post Covid is mostly resolved. There are a few stragglers that need to move on to their respective bid award.
717 is a grind. It’s a lesser of the two evils, 8 legs or a one and done with a short layover on the west coast, even a DH in and out of Maui on both ends, ouch.
Junior and you’ll layover on the 717.
SWA isn’t pulling out soon, they have deep pockets, they aren’t going anywhere. Well who knows, but it’s not something to base a job decision on.
717 will continue to have short upgrade times for the foreseeable future. Once the next few vacancy bids staff the remaining Amazon freighters and additional 787s, this could reverse course but hard to predict bidding behavior long term. If hired soon, within a year (5 months on paper) you can be checked out as a 717 captain or be a senior FO flying only day trips.