I don’t think this will last long. For those that don’t remember, United was forcing pilots into captain slots, that was happening Dec ‘23 to Mar’24. Those 300+ pilots are now past the one year mark and 500 hours at United and now eligible for upgrade. Once all go through training and more WB captains retire and senior NB captains fill those slots, the need for NB captains will be in high demand once again. I believe by early ‘26 captains upgrades will be back down to 3-4 year seniority for summer flying ‘26.

 

To be clear: not a single new hire was ever forced into upgrading. They were all given the option to give up their upgrade slot if a pilot already on property wanted the slot. Prior to fall 2024, plenty of new hires did give up their slots. However, none of them have given up their slots during the past few vacancy bids, because I think they realized that if they did, it would be years before they could upgrade.

I missed the new hire CA thing by one week 😬

 

Good news is things are still moving along pretty nicely. Released to the line in December and latest Vacancy shows me 74% in base already. (EWR 737).

 

Yeah, you are absolutely correct, and I am old enough to know better, wasn't thinking pre merger. And I am painfully aware that there is zero predictive value....

 

What are the chances of getting hired with 737 type rating (0 hours 121,135)?

 

It depends on the rest of your resume. But having a 0 hour type is worse than useless IMHO. If anything it says you want SWA, even that was a long time ago. Did you pay for it, or did you flunk out of training or were you laid off before OE started? So many questions...

edit: Just saw you posted the same on DL/AA(twice) too. New profile, 0 121/135, so new to the industry? Without knowing your background, and experience it is hard to say. But right now is very different from 2 yrears ago, when any CFI could get a signing bonus at a regional with an interview at a legacy attached, all regionals were handing out DEC positions, and all legacies were hiring 2k TT guys. Right now to get looked at I would guess your best chance would be a 5 year regional captain with a 4 year degree, clean record. If you only have 91 or foreign experience, you have a steep hill to climb.

 

A type alone won’t get you hired at any of the places you just asked.

 

does anyone mind sharing the CJO date for new hire class today? thanks

 

Typically the CJO dates of people in a single class will vary a lot. In my class we had people with CJO dates at least 3--4 weeks different from each other...

 

Were you at a foreign carrier with that 737 type rating?