Over the last couple of months I seem to have had a lot of friends looking to me for advice (god knows why!?). A really good buddy of mine came to me yesterday and said he's thinking about jumping ship from Mesa to Compass. Alarm bells immediately went off in my head. He's been at Mesa since the spring, and has a class offer at Compass for January. His only justification for wanting to make the move is that he doesn't like the Mesa route network and he feels Compass is looked on as being a better quality company. While I told him that being happy and comfortable with the company you work for is important, he said that he wanted to go somewhere he could feel happy if the music stopped and he got stuck at a regional.

What would you guys tell this guy to do? He holds a pretty good schedule at Mesa, but commutes. I've put him in contact with my other buddy who has just accepted a class at Compass over Mesa and Skywest, but the more views I can put to him the better. Compass would be his third regional.