BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
Is that a thing at your shop?
In general, at every shop, there are many older/more senior captains that haven't emerged from the stone ages yet, and often times they tend to cluster on the highest paying equipment type, due to being senior.
Pay wise, mid/senior WB FO pays almost the same as very junior NB CA, with more days off and way better trips, so I'm not missing out on anything as far as that goes. I already have about 4000 hours of 121 PIC in the CRJ (thanks 2008/age 65) so if I had to start over somewhere for some reason, I have that box checked. So really the deciding factors to upgrade are 1) when I'm senior enough to replicate the quality of life I have now as far as trip variety and days off (which is hard to do going from WB to NB) or 2) when I really can't deal with the personality issues and command gradient that these guys project in the cockpit. I'm expecting #2 to occur long before I am senior enough to be a widebody captain off of reserve.