Originally Posted by ShyGuy

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.