I've been yelling 'let me on the 75/76' for rather longer than the citiexpress cadets have been around. (Even lent a shoulder to cry on to some of them because they were not going to get onto a mainline fleet.) And yet somehow I, along with a number of others, am still frozen on a fleet which is due to be dead in the water in less than 6 months (737). It is not through lack of internal application that there are vacancies on the 75/76 fleet. It is called fleet management.
Still, at least when I finally get there there'll be plenty of people junior to me so I don't have to take all the crap trips.