I enjoyed the 10/5 schedule very much at Airshare for the most part. When it got busy it was work for sure, but days at home were generally 'off'

Your friend just needs to decide on his ultimate goal in this career. Very few of my friends over the years have ever made 'moron' decisions by going one place versus another. It often boils down to being misinformed or lacking proper guidance. In the past 2 years alone, half a dozen EAS/recent EAS pilots have gone to fedex, southwest, Delta, and career stop corporate jobs.

EAS is a great place to build up a large experience bank and put some PIC time in your logbook quickly. It's a valuable checkbox to have on nearly every application out there. 95% of the people are great to work with, management is in general very fair, and the pay is decent. I'm not going to sit here and list the negatives because we all know what they are.

There is something to gain from working at every type of operator too. Some of the best pilots I've flown with have done a little bit of everything, freight/charter/airline/mil. Additional perspective is never a bad thing!

And last but most importantly is the ability to sift through all of the **** and sh!t on these types of boards to find the unbiased information to make those decisions!