These are as good ideas as the a national seniority list and the "Jump to Conclusions" board!

 

I think you are a little late to the party.....

 

And... Delta, United, Continental (before merger), American (haven't hired in forever though), are the ones I can name off the top of my head. None had/have a TPIC requirement.

 

You could call them Co-Captains! Just like a nice P.C. part 91 outfit would do.

 

Didn't southwest do this back in the day? Lance Captains or something like that.

 

First I highly recommend that pilots call their union reps and ask that fixing the issue become a priority. I recommend "job portability".
Your idea unfortunately does not solve the issue. Your idea would get junior guys off the list, not the problematic senior guys. The other issue is that it would increase operational costs not reduce them. This would mean every pilot would have to be dual seat qualified and all FOs would have to complete PIC PCs. This would increase recurrent training requirements and therefore training costs. Also the administration costs of tracking which pilot sits where and who is the PIC for the flight would be much higher. Just the staffing required in SOC/OCC to answer phone calls and resend revised releases would have an airline cringe. I won't even get into the safety and legal issues.
I do applaud you trying to come up with solutions to this mess, please keep them coming.

 

Actually, per the FAR's, this is not accurate. There is a difference between acting as PiC and logging PIC time. The problem is that Part 121 operators will not recognize any PiC time that a pilot has logged if he was not, in fact, acting as PIC, so nobody does it. In the part 91 world, it happens all the time.

 

There shouldn't be ANY Regional Captain's making over $50-60K a year...THAT'S the problem! The Lifer's who are pulling in the 120K a year, doing OE, running the simms and monopolizing the MEC's.....THEY are the problem! The Regionals were NEVER meant to be a career stop, but it's morphed into that situation. Why is there 15 and 20 yr payscales at some of the Regionals and NEVER at the Majors (except Fredex). It's because the lifers who are entrenched in your MEC's and Negotiating comittees are running the show and tossing the Jr Fo's under the bus to enrich thier career decisions. I won't even go into how many of the lifers are stuck there due to lack of a degree, credit ratings, dui's and checkride bust's. So, they get stuck at the regional and try and make it as best for them as they can...because the CAN'T/WON'T move on.

You guys want to make your industry more stable and a better QOL? Vote the Sr. guys OFF the MEC's and Neg commitees. Stop your payscales at yr 8 or 10, max vacation 2 weeks. Take no company match in 401k's. Make your Company as Cheap to run as possible. GET IN GET OUT.

For any RJ FO that's been sitting around the last 5 years waiting on an upgrade and PIC time....you are fooling yourself and screwing up your career. If you continue to wait for it, rather than making it happen you are going to miss the next hiring wave, or be at the end of it and be perpetually JR the rest of your career....which will result in a frustrating career of reserve and narrow body equipment. QUIT now! Go Expat to ANY turbine PIC job you can find. Go to India, fly turbo props...Africa, Japan, China...wherever. I'm not saying go to Emerites to sit in the right seat for 3-4 years....Go find a LEFT seat job, they are out there. Do it for a year to 18 mos and then come back here to a Major. The guys you are pulling gear for now will still be at the Regional they are now. They will still be miserable and they will still be looking for a way to throw YOU under the bus for more $$$.

 

Hey, hey, hey, some of us aren't willing to live in a van down by the river. Nothing less than a cabin with at least a stove and an internet connection for me

 

If credit ratings are keeping people from moving on to other jobs, then I'm afraid that there is more trouble a brewin.