Originally Posted by
squall line
Not sure about your 9 out of 10. There are quite a few CA commuters out of both PHX and ORD. Company wide you might be right, but your statement makes it sound like there wouldn't be takers for the LAX base. Not true.
There are a lot of captains that commute out of SoCal. Plus many PHX reserves that would like to hold a line. I expect LAX would be quite senior depending on the size of the domicile.