Originally Posted by own nav

My bad, you're right, I misunderstood you. Are we still talking about Key Lime? Or someone else?

My company does both pax and cargo, but you'd never see a paying FO on the pax planes.

What can I say? I guess you have to ask "if no one payed, would the boss still hire someone?" That's where I'd have to draw a firm line. Sounds to me like you can fly just fine without them FWIW. But an outright replacement of a hired FO with a paying one, no I don't agree with it.

To tell you the truth, I haven't had an FO at my base for several months, but no one has seemed to notice. It reconfirms my belief that it's not something the company is dependent upon to turn a profit.