Not all of that is true. Pay is probably about right (with per diem and bonuses added in). We definitely stay in some lousy hotels. The preferred hotel in SFO is a holiday inn express. Which is rediculous because there are a lot of hotels in the area. In general the hotel quality has declined over the years as the company tries to save a dime. They recently implemented a new policy about ground transportation. It has be be uber X. We use to be able to take uber black or arrange our own driver through local contacts, but now it has to be uber X.

25 airplanes this year is news to me. Could be tho, they just don’t share that info with us often. However it wouldn’t be 25 net gain as they are retiring old fleets.

Upgrade time is hard to see. We definitely have 5+ year FOs here, but if deliveries come in and a lot of senior people quit, maybe 3 years?

I’m not sure about the new hires going to challenger. If they have challenger slots available those have to be offered to current FOs in the phenom right? (Anyone else confirm?). I’m not 100% sure about that.

Overtime is hard to say as well. I have not been asked to do overtime for about 6 months. You can’t request more or les days in advance, only take an overtime request as it comes which is usually a day or two before whatever day they are short.

Hope that helps.