Originally Posted by
hkdguy
Would you leave Netjets for Southwest?
I'm a 15 year XL captain and don't live in a Southwest base.
Thanks for any input.
I was a pretty senior captain at XOJET and left for SWA last year, and I couldn't be happier. You've got significantly different earnings potential at NJA than I did, but you still pretty much leave the house for a week at a time, for the rest of your career, right? I have a 2-day trip today, I don't need to leave the house until after 10am to drive to base, and I'll be home tomorrow night not too late...just to give you an idea of what some of our trips look like. To get a better idea of what you'd be signing up for, what SWA base do you think you'd have the easiest commute to? Can you get there fairly consistently on just 1 leg or would you be looking at a 2-leg commute? Is moving to a base out of the question? Also, how old are you?