Out of interest and to allow a reasonable comparison
If you join QF as a second officer, how long can you reasonably expect to be sitting in the back? Once you are in the right hand seat of something, a 737 I assume, how long to command?
I ask as I know of one bloke who retired a few years ago as a 747 skipper who spent 14 years as a SO, only about 6-8 months as a FO and the rest as a captain.
Genuine question and one I guess which is almost impossible to answer with any sort of accuracy.