Originally Posted by
Chad Gates
That’s fair enough ECAM. If your lifestyle would be better served from JQ, all the power to you. I was asking where the 15 year figure came from.
Just to be clear, that is 15 years as an SO to a widebody FO position. Narrowbody FO, 6 months to any base. Of course there are many that choose to do a combination of the 15 years between SO and 737 FO.
They tell me you haven't really lived until you have done 3 or 4 days in a row of 11:00+ hours, consisting of multiple aircraft changes & 4 legs on the East Coast. Once someone takes a 737 slot, they cannot go back to being an SO, so the reality is new joiners who take this option will do 15 years of these days in the RHS.