About 19-20 years at the moment.

Although over the next 15 years roughly half of the community will retire.

Also, by the time you’ve been in the company long enough to finally be earning above market rate, you’ll be so knackered you’ll be needing part time, so you won’t actually end up reaping those rewards.

I joined at 34, was told I’d not get a even a short haul command at Gatwick for 16 years, but I got that in 4, then a Heathrow one 4 months later. Anything can happen, you never know. Been in 7 years now, checking iBid every month shows between 5-10 leavers per month, most not going to 65.

Not up to now, but it’s falling all the time, and who knows?

Well it certainly is fluid but I’d not like to predict which way.....LH commands used to around the 15 year mark, recently however I’ve flown with several guys who are coming up to 20 years in the RHS and they are not being held back by being particularly selective in what they have bid for.

Logically I suspect you’ll see the time to command slide back down to more normal levels as retirements and a few resignations kick in so those that have already joined might benefit.

If you use 18-20 years as a benchmark, you’ll be about right. It may go slightly more junior than that but it’s the holy grail for most people so don’t expect it to go wildly junior. My first opportunity for a LH command was at eighteen and a half years. It’s currently sitting at about 18.

I do do a lot of short (three day, two crew) trips on the 400 but that suits me. The senior mostly seem to head for South Africa.

I’d say it is currently sitting at 19 years. I’m hoping for one at between 19 and 20 years, although I suspect there may actually be a blip upwards next year so it may take 21.

Don’t forget, however, that long haul is increasingly the long term future of this company.

Just wondering if anyone knows how long it takes to get back to you after the day 1 of assessments?
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