Originally Posted by
Burton78
This is spot on. When you’re making as much or more than a Junior Captain as a Senior FO with the QOL flexibility it provides, there’s no incentive for people to trans con commute to sit reserve to have a fourth stripe on their shoulder.
I agree. I plan on bypassing until I can hold Captain within one online leg of my commuter city.
I just don't care about being a captain that much to punish myself and my family for it. The pay gap is not significant for a top ten percent FO and a junior reserve captain. I am not going to do a two leg commute to OAK or LA. The guy at the airport Burger King already calls me Cap'n anyway.