I need to elaborate...
Travel Benefits: A very nice perk for a single pilot. But because in the last five years the airlines have gotten VERY good at using web-tech to fill (and over-book) EVERY LAST SEAT on EVERY FLIGHT, the travel benefits are essentially useless for family members unless they have infinite lifestyle flexibility (ie retired/unemployed).
Regional vs. Major Stratification: Used to be you could make an acceptable living at a commuter airline, and stay until you retired. But industry dynamics have re-allocated what little money and benefits there were from regionals to majors...if you make it to a legacy, you're golden (although major pilots will beg to differ, and find many things to whine about). If you get stuck at a regional, you can expect continued erosion of compensation/benefits and ZERO job/career stability as flying is continually re-allocated to the lowest bidder (ie youngest pilot group). So if you expect any sort of normal upper-middle class life, you need to have a plan B, and hard-cutoff date as to when you'll leave the regionals if you haven't passed the majors personality screening tests or whatever. Age 30-ish comes to mind...you can re-evaluate when you get there (if say there's a big pilot shortage right around the corner) but you need to be spring-loaded to bail out in order to salvage your financial future.