Originally Posted by
Slippery_Pete
Easy fix.
Make 737 FO more lucrative so that experienced SOs aren’t taking a pay cut.
Perhaps grandfather what they are earning in long haul.
Your kidding right?
How about creating a system that rewards those who challenge themselves by taking promotion within a couple of years grace?
As far as why new recruits don’t want to take promotion, they appear to be slightly older than previously, as Keg said perhaps more settled, married with kids. They have probably just moved signed a lease and someone says “Do you want to move to Per/ADL ?}”
Of course not, it a bit late now. So do a three month course and then spend 1/2 years finding ones feet after a big year. Not to mention selling ones soul to the long days on the 737, and then add the commute in traffic.
The 787 and inevitable 747 RIN will eventually balance the situation out.
In the meantime, when RT stands up and stops the HR children running the show, from pilot recruitment to internal placements, their problems will be solved.