Some of us 07/08 hires in EWR are waiting for ORD to grow so we can get back home.

CLE has 20 departures a day, ORD around 80 and yet they are both staffed around 100 pilots per seat. On the first vacancy they allowed 20 ORD slots that were mostly taken by 320 FOs. Since this apparently surprised them, there have been no vacancies since. Despite being told from schedulers and new hires that ORD is going to double.

The current staffing model is all jeffed up for various reasons.