Originally Posted by
Sliceback
So his concern about the past didn't occur? The 'lost decade' didn't happen to the recent new hires?
I don't know about you, but many new hires I fly with were in junior high during "The Lost Decade" so no, it didn't happen to great many of them.
His n/b relative seniority will accelerate as a greater percentage of the guys senior to him transition to w/b flying. That's a factor when you compare a purely n/b final seniority progression vs a seniority progession that includes w/b flying. If you only want to fly n/b 85-90% of the guys senior to you will leave the n/b flying. So retiring as #2000 will even more senior as a n/b CA. Current #2000 is #149 system wide as a 737 CA.
Doesn't mean much if your bases are undesirable and/or the movement in certain bases is nonexistant. It's kinda like our MCO and ATL base, though MCO will be interesting to see after this vacancy bid given how many openings as well as our BNA base. You have your senior bases where, despite the movement and hiring, senior people just pile in on top, or the company is just stagnating the base. Don't you also have some bases that are also stagnant and there's no movement in them?