Not being on the Facebook FO list puts me out of touch with the latest pulse, but that being said I think what complaints one hears now are primarily NB related, and, I think "yes" is the answer to your question of whether WB FOs are generally pretty happy with life as it is today hence the general lack of complaints.


However, to your point of considering making the jump from NB to WB I would simply add that a few of us (myself included) consider WB flying to be not "better" but actually worse. True the trips tend to be far more productive, but nearly everything requires flying red eyes, we just don't call a red eye a red eye when it goes to Paris or South Africa or Hong Kong, but it is very definitely a red eye, and if one does not have the skill of sleeping in a bunk then one is truly in trouble and will quickly find WB trips intolerable. I jumped from NB to WB because the pay differential was enough to overcome my disdain for night flying, but I only considered the 777 because it has a fair amount of domestic trips that are NOT red eyes. I would NEVER bid the 787 because nearly every trip on the '78 is super long haul and totally back side of the clock, often in both directions . . . yuck. Anyways just offering one guys perspective on WB versus NB. It is definitely not everyone's cup of tea. Make sure you examine the trips on any fleet and seat and domicile before making the jump especially with the pending age 67 rule change coming which will likely freeze WB folks completely for 2 years.