Originally Posted by gloopy

LOL exactly. Some call it th ERINO (ER in name only). Part of the bias towards is by newbies compared to other places like someone mentioned perhaps stems from residual inertia from when the ER was, well, the ER.

When the fleet was divided, the ER sub-category/list was pure gentleman's flying, all the time, every time. For a while the worst you could get was an extremely commutable 2 man DUB 24 hour party town layo with 2 legs 3 over days that only paid 14-15 hours. Now its mostly domestic, with the remaining international going fairly senior, and its added a lot of less desireable international to the malaria belt and MEX and a LOT of domestic red eyes (even some intl red eyes too) and early AM shows, etc.

It still contains the prime flying though, and some junior people get it some of the time. The fact remains though, there is a very good reason why 12,000 other pilots already here could have those plug positions but choose not to.