Originally Posted by
8hourrule
I stayed at Comair till the end. If I had it to do over again I would have left at the first sign of trouble. All of my friends that bailed early are captains and I am swinging their gear.
You also were in a market with an oversupply of pilots. An airline with average pilot age of 57. An airline that held a strike. An airline with a damaged name from a high profile accident. Had they kept you, you'd be in the middle of massive hiring due to mandatory retirements, have tons of employees collecting retirement benefits, all in the onset of a pilot shortage.
You were replaced by a much younger and cheaper regional. That dynamic probably wouldn't line up just right again in any of our lifetimes.