Pinseeker....we have differing opinions but I respect your view. I just don't think the HKG STV slots will be gobbled up like the Paris slots will. Thus the junior guys will be thrown into the breech to fill them. With your $2700 plus the amount you say a pilot would have already been spending stateside for a place to live, you get zero equity. At least in the States your mortgage is working for you as an investment or at minimum a tax write-off. You must not have school age kids or I would think you would be more concerned about the non-existent school package and/or the questionable health/medical care support that may or may not be readily available. Spent a week in a HKG hospital once...longest year of my life. And the killer comet has no track record of wacking us.....FDX mgmt does when it comes to optimizing a contract/LOA with holes in it.