That's what "senior" means...it means senior to everyone else. FO's, no matter how long they've been here, will always be relatively junior, and therefore...you guessed it, NOT senior. Next time, choose your words more carefully.

Having said that, you are correct. FO's here, no matter how "senior" they are...are screwed forever. For them, this is essentially Pizza Hut...the ultimate dead end job. They will never upgrade - not ever, and I think most of them are starting to figure that out.

There's a lot of denial on these boards of the obvious facts, but denial and conjecture doesn't pay the bills. No mandatory retirement age = dead end job. Period.