For a young f/o looking to get a widebody command, it's not a bad option.
Unfortunately, the long term prospects are poor.
You are calling for an objective response Sealer? The chances of command are at 50%..., it goes up or down a few points depending on what group is put through but that is a fact! There is an active upgrade program, that's true and it is better than many places, of course! But if you come here thinking that it is a given that you will upgrade because we do have an active upgrade program...., half of the F/O's would disagree.
They have gone back on their agreement to implement the scheduling guidelines...., these guidelines were put in place (by the total agreement of the company at the time) because they recognized that they were needed and now they want to do away with them even though we have enough coverage...., that's a fact! That you don't find the objectivity on that is irrelevant.
The trend has been steadily declining...., it looks more and more like we will be an all freighter operation with constant day to night changes within the same paring and it looks more and more that we will be operating the 767 for at least another decade.
The ability to choose our days off is great...., YES! But even the long standing policy of bringing you back to base early on your last day is not being honored..., and that reduces a day off...., and what is pissing everybody off is that they don't really need to change it, we are NOT restricted on manpower with many crews being underutilized. All they need to do really is up the T&C's and USE SCHEDULING SOFTWARE AND PARING GENERATORS, period. This alone would take care of 90% of the scheduling issues with the commute and the preferential scheduling of a handful of motherless ***** that are constantly playing the system..., this is creating a real discontent on a pilot group that, on a large scale, was quite happy to make AJX a career job...!
It is as simple as that really......!