Originally Posted by
600PullCAPS
Yes you are “eligible” for captain pay at 750 hours and with an awarded upgrade bid. However basically no one gets awarded till they are over 900 hours so SkyWest only has to back pay a few hours….
This is wholly untrue. They are awarding upgrades at the end of the month that you hit 750 hrs, provided you have an upgrade bid in. A base preference of "any" somewhere in your list of bases gets you into the CRO program.
If you don't have an upgrade bid in, they'll "award" you one at the end of the month that you hit 900-950ish hrs. But in that case, you aint getting the CRO anyway...
The only exception to this I can think of would be an FO in the DMA program who gets bypassed for upgrade.