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Originally Posted by Htex3333
I’m sure this question been asked a million times already. But I’m a new hire looking to start sept 5th. What would a realistic upgrade time for me being in IAH.
I’ve calculated it would be around 4 years. Of course, I know all this possibly changes with the jet blue merger. But is that realistic?
If I had to guess it'd be over 4 years to be honest. Upgrades are right now in the 2100s and newhires are in the 3500s. There's not really any retirements and attrition is on the FO side mostly which hurts upgrades to keep the balance of CA/FOs. The company is slowly upgrading 10/month currently as well. By the time you'd be close to upgrade we'd be going into jetblue by then so it's up to them how fast to upgrade. Lots of moving goalposts with slow aircraft deliveries could hurt, age 67 maybe reducing attrition could help, and merger issues could be a thing too. But the job is still great as an FO in the meanwhile. It's been slower this month but before this, I was averaging 120/month for credit working a lot in Vegas (most junior base).
Also another consideration is how big IAH grows. Right now it's about 100/seat. Spirit seems to want to increase it a good amount and even does a good amount of Mx there too. Time will tell what jetblue's plan is with it.
Good luck