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Originally Posted by E175 Driver
Who is this Charlie you guys keep talking about? Ive been told that Ill be a line holder on the E175 right from the start. Im pumped up!
By most accounts you will. With 40 E-175's, 200 new-hires will enjoy the comfy new F/O seats in that "wide-body" with a nice view of those sexy wing slats and 3/4 of you (about 150 pilots) will likely hold hard lines. Unfortunately, most of the remainder of the present Envoy F/O's will watch from the sidelines as you taxi by with that beaming smile and suck eggs unless more E-175's are ord........er, wait a minute.
Actually, they won't as those too will go to new-hires. Sounds good for some, but in reality virtually all eventually lose as it demonstrates yet another end-run around the seniority system hamstringing more senior pilots from options, advancement and improvement. However, the flipside is that as Envoy shrinks, displacements are likely to some degree and then sooner or later, that systemic failure taps you too on the shoulder for your lunch money in the form of reduction to reserve, or displacement to another aircraft (or even domicile).
That process is inevitable to some degree with a steadily shrinking airline even with contraction (parking or reassigning aircraft) matching attrition (flow and non flow) as it usually cannot be "balanced". IMO, if you're going to be rowing on the good ship Envoy until you flow, I'd plan for the likelihood of being pushed to a less desirable rowing position. As it stands now, it seems fairly clear it will likely be significantly more then 6 years before this ship reaches the destination you hope for unless it turtle shells first.
How's your backstroke, BTW ?
Remember, cake doesn't float very well so you can't walk on it once it goes overboard.
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