QR facts for the upgrades

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At the moment, upgrades are bubbling along but at a very slow pace.

Until further notice, all upgrades will be done on A320 as that is the fleet with the highest need of Captains. The A330 suffers from a chronically surplus of Captains at the moment.

Besides that, it has been proven that upgrades on the A330 are causing a lot of bad feelings within the pilot community because there is no straight forward career progress plan in this company. People are being upgraded randomly and although a type of airplane should not matter to the newly upgraded captains, there are huge differences in lifestyle and remuneration!

So the only solution would be:

• STOP DEC hiring
• All upgrades are done on one fleet, in our case the A320
• A clear seniority list is published on yearly bases, so everybody knows exactly when he/she can expect a fleet transfer or a promotion.
• All politics and networking should be left behind us for once and for all!

That way, all is clear to everybody and no moaning is possible!

Utopia, I know, but maybe it will be like this somewhere in the future.

As general information, at the moment some 60+ First Officers are selected for upgrade and are in various stages of the process to command.