If you are based in PDx that means you've been with the company 7+ months (about the upgrade for captains in some other bases). Someone who actauly flies the damn thing can give you better info, but unless you get SLC or PDX most of your flying will be as UAL in CA (SFO and LAX). Seems to be a lot of 8 leg stuff out there, builds charecter. I've only spent time looking at the PDX lines and they don't seem so bad (thanks to a few longer segments like Redmond and Medford). Sometiems Californians get up into the PDX system and vice-versa, but mostly they seem to keep to themselves.