The answer lies in the multi-million dollar tool called "HelpHub". Your posting here indicates your unwillingness to utilize the best resource for answering ANY and ALL of your questions. If you want to (or in the alternative "will") be a captain at United Airlines, it's best you start utilizing the tools afforded. It's uninspired and underwhleming to ask unverified and unidentifiable strangers on the internet how YOUR airline is run when you can get word directly from the individuals that are both accessible and held to a standard of transparency.

Most of the questions submitted to strangers here, including those 'what will my seniority be in ___ base if the sky turns purple on a hot Phoenix morning'-can be answered by the department tasked with that watch. Try it.

You'd think with the increased oversight and scrutiny there'd be a PERSONAL effort to make your peers appear to be something less than rubes-to the unknown depths of the 'internetted' public. Perhaps United pilots as a whole need to have another developmental class at CQ? Hmm...okay, done! More schooling for everyone!