"If"? Wow.

Wasn't that long ago they walked i to newhire classes and asked if any one wanted a E120 Captain spot... We're not there (planes gone) but that was in the 60 new CRJ's coming days. Look at whats going on now.. 50 New E175's coming.. And attrition is way up compaired to those days... I see it at 2 years by summer. Maybe even dip under 2 late summer. Not cool aid'ing this go were you live. East coast PSA/Air Willy ect..

Look. Anyone flying the CRJ will easily have 1000 hours in well under 2 years. I'm almost there (just shy of 1000, hit 2 years next month) and I have been through 2 training sessions and I drop trips like they're going out of style. You also assume that all the guys bypassing upgrade will continue to bypass indefinitely. Like I said, it may dip to 2 years, but it ain't gonna get much lower and it ain't gonna stay there for long. That is of course unless we make several new sims appear out of nowhere and stick them in a new training center that doesn't exist. Oh and can keep LCAs longer than it takes to train them.

I think we are averaging 1 or 2 ERJ UPGRADES per month. Will be interesting to see if they slow upgrades for the summer again. I'm as optimistic as the next guy, but also realistic. There are 100's of guys in line for first upgrade. 100's more willing to go as far East as Denver. At the rate the training department is going, it would take 2 years to get through 1000 upgrades. That's assuming everything continues full tilt.

You have to have been here for over five years to come an hour short of that. At five years an average month brings in 7.5 with everything rounded up. Over half of the pilots have been here for less than five years.
Longevity
90 days .019.
2 years .027
5 years .038

6 months .038
5 years .046

Denied, denied, denied.

What the hell is the point of even having user/vacation time, if all of your requests get denied.

Low upgrades on 175 because of transitions in senior bases, some of which has to be done because that bases CRJ flying is being completely transferred to the 175. Once the senior bases are filled with transitions/transfers then you will see more ERJ upgrades probably into ORD.

Yes. Eventually. There are currently 140 CRJ captains with their transition bid in. That list grows daily.

I guess no one cares about Delta benefits anymore. It's funny how quickly that debate fizzled. SGU and Delta are both laughing at us.

It's hard to argue with the difference in schedules between the 2 types. 3 to 7 more days off per month makes people do funny things.

I'm curious to see how they'll spin it come August.