The satellite base experiment isn't working out too well in ewr on the 737. Mco, iad, ord, iah ... have all grown to gain Captains but that doesn't allow for them to efficiently staff early morning departures out of ewr. Just take a glance at the 15 premium pay trips every single day, reserves flying every rsv day, and 90 hr lines for almost the entire base which is pushing people out even faster. We have a lot of retirements in ewr (especially 777 and 787) and now they can't backfill those seats without hurting 737 staffing even more. Unless their plan is to staff some of the widebodies out of somewhere else like ord 777 flying.