Originally Posted by
Margaritaville
That's what I'd like to know. Because I keep reading "Don't go to ABC air line because you'll only retire at Y,YYY but at XYZ airline you'll retire at X,XXX. You may as well buy a lotto ticket. The legacies are basically the same once you get behind the door. Go to the one that has a base where you want to live and be done with it. Trying to game the system to get a few numbers ahead is a waste of time. Take it from someone who is nearing the end of his career and endured the brunt of the Lost Decade. Your career won't turn out as you expected. Take what you can get.
How many people younger than you is the important part and really the only relevant metric. The part that is worthless is "I can hold CA on XXX aircraft in XXXX". Too many outside variables will change that. However one thing that will never change is the amount of people hired before you that are younger than you.