Originally Posted by Turbosina

Never in a million years would I leave DL / ATL for UA / IAH. Do yourself a favor, jumpseat on us (UAL) out of IAH on a narrowbody and talk to the crews there. IAH is really senior for NBCA, although it's junior for NBFOs.

I was IAH based for a few months and had to do the SFO-IAH commute (I live in SFO) and had to buy tickets SFO-IAH most of the time, just because of all the senior dudes commuting to SFO to fly the WBs. I had multiple conversations with these senior dudes (25+ year guys) who repeatedly told me that the IAH WB flying was so bad, they felt it was worth it to commute to SFO for the WB Asia flying. Nobody in IAH had a good thing to say about our WB flying out of IAH. It's mostly double-WOCL legs to only a few destinations in S. America (EZE, SCL, whatever Sao Paulo's identifier is, and Rio). Both legs (outbound and inbound) are redeyes. And IAH WB is not a growth area for the company.

If you absolutely positively must live in DEN or SFO for the rest of your career then I'd say mayyyyybbbeee come to UAL. That's a huge maaayyyyybbbe.

The advice from the older guys and gals on this thread is absolutely spot-on. At your age, like many others on this forum, I was begging to get hired as a CFI and was making $8/hr (you read that right) flying Traffic Watch. The idea of landing a spot at DAL at your age was absolutely unheard of...you had ex-mil guys with thousands of hours of heavy jet time who couldn't get hired at ComAir. Because there were no jobs, anywhere, to be had. Those times *will* come again, as difficult as that may be to believe now. If you leave DL now, you'll be that many seniority numbers closer to the furlough line. Stay put. Enjoy the ride.