I'd avoid it. If you have cabin fever and have just GOT to get your "Paris First Class International" on ASAMFP then it'll provide that. Sometimes. But there's a very good reason that a senior airplane goes to the bottom of the list: None of the 12,000 existing pilots want to be junior on it.

Its mostly domestic and with the great ER purge of the last few years the international isn't what it used to be either. Lots of red eyes, lots of malaria belt flying, lots of Mexico City, etc. And its a shrinking fleet. While that may or may not mean a forced displacement at a time of the company's choosing, it likely will mean you will spend most of your time treading water or moon walking further and further back in the category. You will absolutely get some amazing trips here or there, but over all it is one of…argueably the…best category at the airline, yet the junior part is one of the worst.

One "pro" is you may or may not get to enjoy a nice, lazy fall full of lazy autumn long call dreams. Then again you might not. The time to pick it as a new hire was early on when the first couple classes could pick it. They would at least have a little wave to ride for a while, although even that will ebb pretty hard fairly soon.

It would be one of my first choices in the airline once you could hold the upper third of the seat/base you wanted. But I'd avoid it like the…well, you know…as a junior pilot if given the choice. YMMV.