Originally Posted by
flyprdu
I think you overestimate the amount of purely ambitious pilots that exist. The quality of life hit from going from senior WB FO to junior NB captain is huge.
And the money is probably close.
There's no incentive to upgrade in that scenario. A scenario that doesn't exist at Alaska.
And it still goes deep here.
Except in Swayne Martin's United newhire March 1 class, the
bottom choices were 787, 777, and 767. As a 25 yr old, he got the 777.
So now you have widebodies going to newhires and unfilled CA vacancies on the narrowbody fleet.
In United's case, it's probably because they are the only legacy airline to have airport ready reserve.
