Originally Posted by
Pineapple Guy
This is simply a testament to our lousy reserve system and lousy trips on the 7ER. It's been that way at DAL since we went to the RAW score system and got rid of a good high yellow system. When I got hired it took me 8 years to hold ER F/O, but back then the airplane did nothing but 3 on, 4 off flying trips with 24 hour layovers in Europe. When a new hire can hold the airplane, that should tell us something....
PG,
Reserve sucks - this is true, but you can not compare time to 7ERB when we had flight engineers to today. Guys would be stuck flying sideways for years back then so it took some guys years to get to Narrow Body FO - and that was under the old reserve system.
Scoop