Originally Posted by
worstpilotever
This was my point to begin with. more aircraft at the highest payscale. This translates to more opportunities to be at the highest pay scale. United appears to staff approx 24 pilots per 777/787. with 57 more planes in the top scale, that means about 1300 more pilots at the top payscale. (leaving out the 767-400 for simplicty.)
This isn’t technically true since Delta requires all their 4 man crews to have 2 Captains. Delta may have a very similar number of WB Captains. United will have significantly more WB F/O’s though.