Originally Posted by
e6bpilot
Holy hyperbole. I am not diminishing the very real situation to each individual displaced and commuting from a base, but come on…
We are getting ready to enter a period of sustained hiring and upgrades that is going to add a significant number of pilots to the seniority list. Those of us who have been here during previous periods of stagnation know that seniority progression (and all it entails like holding the seat you want) is not a straight line. Here recently, it has gotten a lot more jagged, but by this time next year, all will be right in the world barring some sort of major calamity.
A junior west coast captain bailing? No effing way. Why anyone with more than a year or two would leave here to get on the back side of the hiring boom somewhere else is truly beyond me. I get it, it’s APC and we are all going to burn this place to the ground, but let’s be real. Someone with greater than 2 years here would have to have a very compelling reason to leave.
we’ve added 500 pilots in 2 years. Most jr in the 1/16/24 class is currently 25 yrs old. If they live in DEN or points west and are displaced to do a transcon to a crappy schedule…and they’re looking at an airline based where they live hiring 2000+ every year…one starts asking the ?’s.
If I had 40 years left…it’s not a tough call to fill out some apps. No decision to make until you get a CJO.