Originally Posted by
PerpetualFlyer
If they offer you the chance to switch and you don't take it and instead sit around in a pool, you're pretty dumb. It's just an airplane. They all fly and you get paid about the same for either one. Don't be that guy.
Originally Posted by
FlyinRabbit88
I remember back in 2008 when people were offered the bro and people decided to wait for a crj class instead. Was almost a 4 year mistake. Not that would remotely happen hear.
Calculated risk. Given the industry outlook, you can probably get away with deferring class date to get based where you want to live. That would be the ONLY reason to defer..."engine-under-wing" time is a really, really stupid reason to pass on an earlier class date.
There's a possibility that the decision might bite you in the butt (ie 9/11 type event). But that knife cuts both ways...I deferred my hire date a few weeks because my wife wanted to execute a planned family vacation. I barely missed upgrade when the music stopped, but I spent the first few years of my youngest child's life as a senior FO instead of commuting to rock-bottom junior reserve CA. I don't care how much it costs on the back end of my career, those years were worth it. But you just never know...