Originally Posted by Nantonaku

Don't fool yourself, every single FO here could get hired at Compass/PSA or any other regional currently hiring. Making a lateral move, and getting hired at Compass like you did, is not difficult. Second, a lateral move is not a slam dunk career improving move. No one knows how this is going to play out, what are you doing to do next month if American reneges and Delta decides they aren't going to do business with Compass? Move on to the next regional and start over at 1st year pay again at regional #3? If you had it all figured out you wouldn't have wasted 6 years of your life at regional #1.