Trans States CQFO
 

What is the deal with Trans States CQFO? What minimums are they looking for?

What is the upgrade time currently at TSA?

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feel free to read the past 25 pages on the Trans States thread...

but mins are 3500 TT and 1000 121 time. (135 time is considered case by case, crew and jet time is considered more heavily)

True upgrade depends on the fact of if you can hold upgrade and no other FO senior to you has the qualifications...

...honestly if you're asking this questions, that means you're not in the pipeline yet which means that you have missed the bubble of getting a CQFO position...

the Dec. 3rd class (which is the first class of CQFO's, including myself) just took they're checkrides in the past couple days...so time will tell on how this really works out.

Assuming you meet the qualifications, and are in fact a CQFO any idea what the time line looks like to hold a line, or is there such a thing as a CQFO?

I don't know if anyone knows what's going to happen once they get out of training. I can tell you this, with the planned number of airplanes, every CQFO will be able to hold Captain by late fall. I think that's th only thing anyone can say for sure.

The sooner you get in the better. Even in the right seat you will make more as an FO than at your current regional.

Please explain how the FO at TSA makes more.

Thanks

CQFOs assigned to the right seat earn a blended rate. Please see the TSA thread to answer your questions.

I disagree with this, CQFO hiring is still in full swing. Those hired now may not sit in the left seat as much as the first few classes though. At least until they hold a full Captain award.

They (the hiring folks) have said the target is 200 CQFOs. I don't think there are even 100 hired overall yet. Either way for most FOs it would be more money and should be a fast upgrade.

well there is about 85 CQFO's in training (~100 total with FO's)

The COO said in his phone conference 6 weeks ago that they are looking to cap the CQFO at around 115 and then make a "right seat program". (not sure on what the entails though)

But you're right, it's anyone's guess of an upgrade timeline for us. True upgrade for us seems to be within a few months since there were only ~20 Fo's on property that are qualified to upgrade, the 5th class starts monday and we will see what the make up of it is.

From looking into the previous posts I came up with:

December 3rd 9 CQFO'S, 3 FO's

December 16th 13 CQFO's, 3 FO's

January 5th 20 CQFO’s, 5 FO’s

January 14th 15 CQFO’s, 3 FO’s

The numbers I am coming up with are around 57 CQFO's and 14 FO's since December 3rd. Are these numbers accurate?

Thanks,

Speed