were they at the orlando event- had a couple guys from that airline at the event there.

 

good call, forgot to mention that! Yeah the way it stands now i think the most junior captain is 1350ish, thats november of 2006, out of 2065 numbers on the january 3rd list! Now i know there are december classes that still need to be added so lets ball park it at 2100!

But there are a huge number of FOS in the 1000-1400 range that can hold upgrade and will take up most of the upgrade postions in the next few bids! But like you said most of the 2007 new hires which is 1408 to 2100 will need a couple years to get the 2500 hours for upgrade which will put them upgrading in the beginning of 2009! So yeah i would say for a new hire right now at 2200ish with current attrition of 20-30 a month 3 years to upgrade! So i guess anyone with a 2007 new hire date will see upgrades from 18 months to 30 months depending on vacancies, TT of the FOS bidding, and how many FOS will be waiting on certain equipment certificate slash bases!

Me personally i was planning on waiting for a while to upgrade for QOL reasons but given recent events such as age 65 and merger talks i'm just going for the left seat as soon as possible, minus the CRJ! I am putting in a bid for all the RW bases, s5 ATL and CHQ STL, SDF, and CVG! we'll see what happens.

I do find it very interesting that we got a Memo from Crew Planning today asking all FOS to update their Total time as of January 1st 2008 to find out whos going to have the times and who isn't! i think thats management code talk for "street captains" haha j/k! At least our knee jerk reaction management style is trying to plan ahead for a change, But it leads me to believe there will be a lot of upgrades in 2008!

Cheers!
SK