Originally Posted by
Stinger6
The original poster lives in base and seems willing to trade dollars for time off to go on WB FO reserve in Newark. I am torn about trading time off for dollars to go to a NB CA line in SFO. I will wait until I can hold a line, which won't be long now, and maybe give it one more football season...it's wonderful to have these choices, but they are trade offs.
Tick tock goes the career clock. I worry that the NB upgrades will dry up while I sit on the sidelines and wonder if this is the time.
Other than during the summer, being a junior NB CA is probably better on reserve than it is being a lineholder. You’ll still fly whether voluntarily or not, but not to the same degree a lineholder would be—do your research. Look at the reserves available for SFO at the end of the month and see their totals, then look at the bottom feeding lineholder awards. You may be surprised at the QoL difference with little to no impact on pay.