This entire thread is bulls#!t !
You assume that everyone hired in 05 and beyond is from Express.
That they're all just young kids with no experience, unlike the "brain surgeons"at UAL.

My early 05 class had 4 Express guys, 4 military (one C5 I think) The rest of us had plenty of previous airline experience. (10,000 hours and 4 type ratings for one example)

Remember, UAL hired plenty of 300 hour (+ a vajayjay) wonders all through the 90's. I personally flew with 6 or 8 gals (and interns) who had a lot left to learn in the right seat of a commuter, but 4 months later they were gone to UAL with NO PIC.

So that person deserves to go ahead of someone at CAL just because they got hired at UAL first? Sorry , ain't gonna happen.