The advice he was giving was about how your life would be seniority wise in the right seat and had nothing to do with upgrade. As stated before - all upgrades are based on company wide seniority. Period.

I'll expand a little on right seat seniority. The only thing that really matters month to month is your seniority in domicile in your seat. The lower on the list in domicile the worse your life is. Someone bidding in the top 10-20% gets a good schedule, they get to fly the better higher paying trips, the days off they want, maybe some vacation in the summer if done with the master bid. While those in the bottom 30-40% get all the crap, the reserve, work weekends with early shows and late releases, and can forget about ever getting vacation over a holiday or in the summer.

Now to point out the differences in the 175 and CRJ -- We have about 300 FOs on the 175 and nearly 1500 and the CRJ. On the 175 about 30 have the seniority to upgrade but haven't. Probably 200 or so have only been with the company for less than 18 months. On the CRJ 500 or so FOs have the seniority to upgrade but have chose not to. Another 500-800 will be able to before those 200 on the 175 with less than 18 months. Simply put a great majority of the upgrades at this company will come off the CRJ FO list for the next several years. This means the movement on the CRJ FO list should be much faster. Your relative seniority in domicile in that seat should move a lost faster - and get you everything that comes with it. Sure some CRJ FOs will bid the right seat of the 175, but it won't be significant.