Originally Posted by awax

PEK?, all the treasure is polluted knockoffs, but a 27 hour 4-day isn't bad. The European flying off the east coast will be 3 day trips worth 16-ish hours? And GIG will be 4 day worth about 20 hours?

3 Europe trips gets you to 50-ish hours + 1 GIG for 20 = 70 hours
2 PEK worth 27 + 1 Europe trip for 16 = 70 hours
3 PEK is the winner at 81 hours

Closing and opening a BES is expensive and the company wouldn't do it unless there were anticipated long term savings. I think the argument here is that from IAD, a full month of flying for lines holders can be built at pretty darn close to guarantee for the majority of the pilots.

There's nothing wrong with that, I just think based on announced anticipated flying that based around days off and pay, the move at least for would-be senior FOs is to bid narrow body CAP. Given the same line credit range, days at work, and number of trips to the airport why not take the CAP pay?

That was my inference on the seat going junior.