Originally Posted by
Gearswinger
By definition, if you are on reserve, you are not senior. Depending on base and premerger group, 9-10 years is a line holder as a CA in NY. If you want to be in DTW and MSP then it's higher. No CA is forced to be in those senior bases, they choose to, and by extension, choose to be on reserve. If they wanted a line, they could commute to it, but QOL is king, so reserve at home is better than a line with more days off that you have to commute to.
Baloney, MSP is actually the more junior 900 CA base. JFK is the most senior. (pre vacancy 15-06... haven't looked at the shakeout from that as it's not final yet) In fact it's pretty even across MSP, DTW, and LGA for reserve seniority, and yes there are 11+ year seniority pilots on reserve (thanks to Bloch)