Short/Long Course Upgrade
 

Is there such thing as a short course upgrade if you're upgrading to a fleet you're currently on? For example, FO is awarded 737FO in indoc and when eligible bids for and is awarded 737CA. What dictates if you go through short or long course upgrade?

Not if it's your first upgrade at UAL.

First upgrade at United is the long course. You don’t have a choice in the matter.

I think they got rid of the short course option last spring.

Thanks for the responses! Heard a few varying opinions but couldn't find anything official anywhere.

no more short courses on the 737. I can’t speak for other fleets though.

You got good and current info here (by luck 😂

Next time there is a thing called a PDR ......... in the drop-down menu there is a Training Committee option. That would be the first place I would try if I had a question about training.

As a Cpt you don't have to KNOW everything......but you do need to know where to look for the information.

"I told you not to, silly boy"
 

The answer lies in the multi-million dollar tool called "HelpHub". Your posting here indicates your unwillingness to utilize the best resource for answering ANY and ALL of your questions. If you want to (or in the alternative "will") be a captain at United Airlines, it's best you start utilizing the tools afforded. It's uninspired and underwhleming to ask unverified and unidentifiable strangers on the internet how YOUR airline is run when you can get word directly from the individuals that are both accessible and held to a standard of transparency.

Most of the questions submitted to strangers here, including those 'what will my seniority be in ___ base if the sky turns purple on a hot Phoenix morning'-can be answered by the department tasked with that watch. Try it.

You'd think with the increased oversight and scrutiny there'd be a PERSONAL effort to make your peers appear to be something less than rubes-to the unknown depths of the 'internetted' public. Perhaps United pilots as a whole need to have another developmental class at CQ? Hmm...okay, done! More schooling for everyone!