Junior CA award at UPS generally runs 65%, give or take 5%. On the June 2021 vacancy bid, the junior CA award (ONT 757) went to a June 2016 hire.

Our retirements have run 2-3x mandatory over the last three years.

We are understaffed. While the Company likes lean staffing, I believe current staffing is on the detonation side of lean for the needs of the network and this is reflected in frequency of JA calls, Management Emergency Flying, and an agreement that all opentime pickup pays like a JA for the previous four weeks and next eight weeks.

From October 2017 through December 2022, UPS Airlines will have grown by 53 airframes. It has been reported that there are 14 additional TBD airframes budgeted for, to be delivered 2023 or later, but no orders have been announced.

Bus does less east coast-sit sort-west coast night stuff than the 757 or MD due to speed, but it does more 3-4 leg duty periods. West coast flying has increased the last year. Seniority progression as a new FO should be decent, as few people bid to Bus FO from other fleets but lots of Bus FOs bid to international fleets once their transition freeze expires (18 months for newhires). The amount of 24hr layovers on the Bus is relatively minimal; 12-16hr is much much more common. There's some nice layovers on the Bus, some of which are longish, but don't have an unrealistic expectation of what is coming - they aren't like Caribbean 73N layovers at Delter.