Originally Posted by
jergar999
I met a ~26 year Airbus captain at the Doubletree the night before we bid at indoc. She was selling the Airbus pretty hard and I asked why she hadn't taken a widebody slot with that much seniority. She calmly and very seriously replied that United "doesn't have any widebodies for her to bid into".
She may be too junior to hold wide-body captain. I’ve been here over 18 years and am still about 2,000 numbers away from holding widebody captain anywhere. And people hired at United 7 years before me are only a couple of hundred numbers senior to me. So a person hired at United in 2000/2001 (pretty close to 26 years) may not be able to hold widebody captain. I’m referring to 777/787 - if you mean 757, then by all means she can easily hold it in most bases.