Originally Posted by Jetnfast

I had the choice of both and picked the 73N. A gal in my class also picked the 7ER and we will be LAX based effective 2 Mar. So it took the same time to get LAX regardless of aircraft.

Going forward, who knows. My guess is the 73N as a growing fleet will be the better pick (I guess I'm biased) especially with the -900s coming on line. I flew a ship the other day that was 10 days post delivery.

Also, the junior guys on the 73N seem to hold a line fairly regularly since reserve goes senior (at least right now). The trip mix looks to be a fair amount of east-west/west-east coast redeyes and other domestic with some Mexico (mainly Cancun turns) mixed in there. There is the occasional central America layovers in Costa Rica and El Salvador.

My guess is the ER guys do lots of domestic plus a fair amount of Hawaii runs, which sound nice. The ER flight deck is huge, and probably more comfortable on the longer legs.