Originally Posted by
Macjet
You want people leaving that are ahead of you (retirements, carrier changes, fleet, or base) and people being added below you. It doesn't matter if we hire another 10,000 pilots junior to you unless they're in the same fleet, seat, and base. Your relative position will stagnate, and your flexibility, if all the new hires were to go BWI in an A220.
Or all people above you could bid BWI A220 and those 10K newhires would end up underneath you....
At NK and WN upgrade is at 55%, except for a few holdouts. At all the legacy carriers there is 20 long haul FOs, and now 2 year captains, as long as you don't mind sitting reserve in EWR+JFK+LGA. I think having more types and more bases gives people more options.