Originally Posted by Avroman

We aren't hurting for new hires, we are hurting for captains. We ran the well dry of qualified FO's willing to put up with New York as captains and then kept trying to send more there... It helped create a shortage of captains. A wise bidding senior FO can make about as much as a reserve captain with much better quality of life here (and that's without factoring in the suck of commuting to a co-domicile New York)