Hey the nugget program doesn't blow..................It is just seniority working it's way out. You could have bid ANC if you wanted to but you probably didn't want to commute up there for QOL reasons..............I could have been CAPT up there almost 3 years before I held it in MEM. I didn't bid it because I didn't want to commute up there for similiar QOL issues...........This allowed someone more Junior to me to hold it................

Why can a pilot with a Seniority of 3600 hold CAPT on the 727??..........................because lots of more Senior Pilots bypass it because of QOL over $$$................

Now if the PAY system was broken out by Aircraft..........and the MD-11 seat paid ( for arguments sake) $15-20 dollars more per hour than the DC10 or A300............You probably wouldn't be able to hold it at all.....................

Seniority is seniority........