Thanks for the information. There is certainly a lot of money to be made at SWA and the first year or two was made a lot easier by those that were able to take the resignation money NetJets has offered in the past.

However, it's useful to compare apples-to-apples. If you are talking about trading trips at SWA, not considering vacations lost by leaving NetJets, not considering the amount of training time initially at SWA, a commute to OAK, crash pads, commuting in a day early, yada yada, then I'm not sure the comparison is valid.

Don't get me wrong, SWA has a lot of options and great pay. I'd love to have a SWAPA style contract at NetJets. Overall I think SWA is a better company. However, when I compare averages it takes a good 10 years to break even for a NJA captain that wants to move on. Those first couple years anywhere are likely to hurt with lost income and lost quality of life. And there is certainly an opportunity cost to the family if you have young ones at home. A friend of mine went to a legacy and was based on reserve in a crash pad at NYC. Will he do better than me in his 50s and 60s? I can almost guarantee he will. But, he literally lost a year with his children by rotting in a crash pad near New York. To me that isn't worth it, even though he'll likely be in retirement $1 million wealthier than I will.

It's great pilots finally have so many options. But, I like to compare median pay and QOL to median pay and QOL.

With that said, the pay at NetJets is too low and the argument can be made that even Allegiant pays higher than NetJets now. We have nobody to blame but ourselves for that. Congrats to all the airlines that stood strong for decent contracts. At the very least, hopefully NJASAP can piggy-back on the airline contracts years from now.