Originally Posted by
Hangman
I'm at UA and sit reserve by choice. I've flown 1 trip in the last 2 months. I average 1 trip a month. SFO and other base are probably different, but right now I get paid to pretty much do anything BUT fly while I credit 85-90 picking up short calls.
Concur. I’m a UAL WB FO and bid reserve over the winter. I flew one trip in 4 months. Even made a good amount of add pay due to the unused short calls.
Even if you (OP) stay narrowbody at a legacy, you’ll be more senior due to everyone senior to you peeling off to the wide bodies. In 10 years, compare your seat seniority to someone who stayed at South West - you’ll be way more senior in seat due to that reason alone.
I never applied to SWA because I didn’t want to fly a 737 doing regional flying for the rest of my career. Options of flying are a benefit to a legacy airline.
I’d say throw your apps in and see what happened.