Originally Posted by
fpvdude
Ah, great! So a jet FO job might become available to applicants who can't jump the queue by buying their ATPL, in a few years time! Back to the outback for you in the mean time.
They can get their ATPL on a turboprop.
(*assuming they don't go down the path of applying for 457 Visas due to lack of "suitable candidates". Which HAS already been done by multiple companies in Australia..)
I've seen this done for Captains, but FOs? My experience is that suitable FOs get upgraded, others don't, some of them don't understand/accept that they aren't suitable. To be fair, some flight ops teams aren't very good at explaining why someone isn't getting an upgrade and what they can do to improve.