Originally Posted by FriendlyPilot

You can be a 777 or 787 FO as a new hire and a 737 or Airbus Captain in 2 years in numerous bases. I think that’s really the advantage United has right now. We are adding 550 planes in 5 years, 200 of those are replacing RJ flying bringing that to mainline. Whatever we have going on now will likely be much better in a few years.

Just 4 years ago this guy came on here trashing United because his CJO was after Southwest’s and all he wanted to do was be based in Denver. So he took the job with Southwest because someone told him it took 20 years to be a Captain in Denver (not true). Junior Captain in Denver is 3 years seniority right now.

So trying to judge based on “now” isn’t always the best way to look at things.