Originally Posted by rp2pilot

You're right, the early 2000 hires at Southwest did indeed benefit from organic growth but the original poster wasn't aking about jumping ship then; rather, he's talking about current times. If there's little or no organic growth (a reasonable assumption), seniority advancement will be solely based on future retirements. It's just numbers, and those numbers indicate significantly faster seniority at United vs SW as of the current year. Seriously, only advancing 25% in the next 10 years is as bad as it was at United during the lost decade (of which I had unfortunate experience to endure).