Originally Posted by Race Bannon

Not sure this is true. Look at 737 captain at all bases. The number 10,000 pilot is about 90% which is within a margin +/- of a coupla percent across ALL bases and would be on reserve with no control of their schedule. Forget about commuting to 90% NB captain, the QOL would suck. That same 10K pilot would be about 55% in SFO as a 777FO working possibly 3 x 3 day trips for 75 hours a month. I don't care how much better the line holder improvements are(reasonably achievable), they will not pull guys like this to NB captain unless they are much better % than a bottom line holder. This is especially true for the 50% of the list that are commuters.