Originally Posted by
symbian simian
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.
At WN, it's currently sitting at 60% with bypassers starting to upgrade. As a frame of reference, the difference between 55 and 60% here is around 500 pilots.