Originally Posted by
TED74
Honest question: It's great for newbies who want to upgrade to those early-year left seats, but why are those left seats so undesirable that thousands of pilots above them didn't bid them? There's definitely a wow factor on the opportunity, but also a wow factor that something must really stink (apparently worse than when you guys were hired) for most of those eligible for such upgrades to pass on them.
That question has been asked for decades. I propose it is an irrelevant one because there are 14000+ ideas as to what the ideal kind of flying is. What you are really asking is why the flying is not stovepiped. There will probably be FOs senior to me on the day I retire 7 years from now. Why is that?
You are trying to tie junior captains to crappy flying, and that is simply not a complete picture for the reason. You have senior guys doing the same crappy flying. I could ask you why would they want to do that when they could downbid and make the same or even more bank.