30 years ago if you had a choice between eastern and delta and you chose delta, you were an idiot... Same with pan am and twa... Those airlines were the bees knees... Best you can hope for is to get a seniority number early (1000 pilots at frontier with a projected 2200 or so) and hope they stay in business (rumor I heard is that by the end of this year or next year, I can't remember, that frontier will have the highest operating margin in airline history)... Ask a pilot how his/her career went and they won't be able to tell you til the day they retire