Originally Posted by
Mr Good Cat
Care to qualify this comment? I have seen many quality FOs upgrade to Captain, at the absolute minimum 3000 factored hours, but there are very few FOs with between 5-10 thousand hours. The upgrade requirements are to have a clean disciplinary record, show that you're capable of learning the command role and taking responsibility, and answering a few questions on the Part A etc. Then there's a development course and final assessment.
Let me know which airlines make it really easy to upgrade. I'll avoid them
haha that is NOT all of the requirements. If it was, there wouldn’t be a need to hire DEC’s. They seem to make it as hard as possible to upgrade. ( from what I’ve heard )