Originally Posted by
Twincezzna
While I think ATL has far better areas within 1.5 hours of the airport for southern living they have way less widebodys. Shoot they have fewer high paying wide bodys than American. United wide body growth is unmatched youll be a wide body captain in your 40s if you start there next year.
from the Pilot Pulse YouTube channel he did a breakdown on UA’s WB Capt time to upgrade per base, very analytical & good video.
777 Cap IAH Is 18 years & 787 is 25 years. Just so you can fly to South America 90% of the time. I kno some older UA guys that dislike IAH flying so much they purposely commute while living in Houston (EWR based).
in fact he’s quoting everything to be atleast 18 years for plug 787 Cap. If delta takes an extra handful of years I’d consider that time negligible?
On WS for DL, if you project for the WB growth and are willing to be a plug for NYC WBA, looks like equivalent time of 25 years assuming no growth. So for both companies it’s approx 25 years and should go lil’ junior from there.. that leaves 13+ years as a WBA at DL or UA.. It also seems DL may have another large WB order ahead to account for the 7ER’s when UA has already done that