Originally Posted by
hockeypilot44
You could go to Delta and have an 18-20 year upgrade, make 33 percent less than a pilot at Southwest, work more days than a Southwest pilot, and still think you are better off because the Southwest pilots have to fly the 737 the rest of their careers while you can fly many different airplanes.
Epic!!! You left out the new bucket system though... This post is a reality and will be for the foreseeable future. In 8 years if you get hired you might see a 12 year upgrade, assuming we aren't 7,000 pilots by then. Lots of assumptions, not seeing growth as one of them.