It used to be at year one or somewhere near that timeframe you could either go to left seat 190 reserve or hold a line on the small Bus, now at one year you might be able to hold 190 left seat reserve or maybe right seat small bus, but still reserve. So it's not like it was before, now the question is would you rather fly the small bus right seat and get some red eyes on your schedule, or do the left seat 190 and get a few 5 leg days here and there.

At 1 year now you l'll be junior and on short call reserve on both planes so the pay rate becomes more important.

What is still true is the 190 is only in PHL and the seats will destroy your back; whereas the small bus is nice and comfortable and is in DC and CLT too...