Originally Posted by
conquestdz
I don't have any specific knowledge, but there has to be a reason that so few pilots there think the extra pay is worth being a junior captain that it goes all the way down to street captain.
The same reason there are 800 FOs system wide senior to our most junior captain. It's the same everywhere. It's a job. We'd all rather be somewhere else but it's how we pay the bills. What all of us do with our careers is an individual choice.