Originally Posted by
pitchattitude
If already a DCE, just preference. If you have the seniority, but they don’t backfill, you’re not going to get it anyway and there is nothing you are losing out on with the preference.
It's possible to get there with a 3D as well if he's junior enough in Dallas to get displaced from an upgrading FO but senior enough to hold it in Chicago. He didn't say exactly how junior he was (I'm not going to study the seniority list to figure out where a junior lineholder in ORD falls in DFW) which is why I told him 3P and 3D. It's certainly what I'd do if I were him.