Originally Posted by
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united has more widebody captains and far more top-paying widebody captains than delta. and the 3 fo thing goes away on ultra long flights
it's been 5 or 6 years, so it may have changed, but a UAL buddy was interested so we ran the numbers and it certainly wasn't FAR more. When you account for the fact that many of their 76 Captains almost never fly the 764, we only had about 50 fewer WB Captains than UAL. Id guess it's due to 1/3 ratio and the fact that they use their WBs a lot more on domestic routes. Of course they had a lot more WB FOs.