Originally Posted by
ImSoSuss
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.
That's true. Which is why everyone hired in their 40s and later need to temper their expectations. It's unlikely they will ever see WB CA. Too many younger people ahead of them. But that's okay. They can still make NB CA in just a few years and make way more than wherever they came from (LCC/regional).