I doubt it. I have been flying as a FO on the 88 with most Captains coming from the 75/76. It is a very different lifestyle. Fast pace. Busy. Multiple legs. Most of the wide body pilots don't want that 717/M88 life.
I hear it first hand from the guys I fly with and I have yet to fly with someone who came off a wide body.
The guys who just upgraded from international flying complain for at least half of the trip and can't stop comparing the flying to their previous life.
I think we'll see more junior upgrades IMHO.

I agree with your general statement. However, I meant the guys in the last AE who received an award to WB FO and have yet to train or convert. In DTW there were quite a few junior 330Bs awarded...many of which could hold DTW717A. I have a feeling there likely won't be many, if any, displacements off the DTW330B, but if there is, these guys could hold junior DTW717A. They're adding 15 spots to both of these positions so I think it's all a moot point. But I was wrong once...this could be twice. :D

I bet ATL 88a doesn't get filled. I can hold it, live in ATL, I LOVE money, and have 0 intention of bidding 88a.

My prediction is MSP will still be a 10+ year upgrade and 15+ for a workable schedule.

Why would they get shoved out of their seats?

to be fair, it's not even close to accurate without displacements either.

If this bid doesn't work out for anybody....there will be another one next year I suppose.:D

As for those who sit senior FO....as a new hire SO I flew with FOs who could have been captains..with good seniority in the base. Being a newbie and not understanding the thought process, I asked a captain about why these FOs were doing what they were doing?

His answer didn't make a lot of sense at the time, but 30 years on I get it completely....he told me, 'if you stay in the copilot seat long enough, it wont matter to you what else you can hold, mentally that's what you will permanently become, an FO.....and that's where you will retire.'

Over the last few years I have flown with a lot of senior FOs, and what that Captain told me as a new hire.....now makes a lot of sense.

Besides current m88 FO's, who would bother bidding m88A in ATL? If they're junior, it could be a year for conversion plus the full training footprint. All that just to get displaced off of a closing fleet in 2020!?

I assume the slots are for the displaced captains and they will not award anyone junior to 2016 hire date because it would be pointless.

Different strokes for different folks I guess.

getting another MD is never a bad thing. and in times like these, its the best of things.

I deliberately bid to a category that had a sunset date, because I did not like the options available at the time via AE opportunities.

When the sunset occurred...I parlayed the expected MD to bump into a WB-A position I would have likely never achieved via an AE.

Everybody should be applying some strategic career thought process to what coming.

It's out.

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