Originally Posted by Cujo665

It’s definately personal choice for almost all of them. If you’re a 50+ something, living in Base doing day trips home with your family almost every night making $120-$150 a year with 15+ off at home, do you really want to start over at the bottom of a seniority list, on probation, living in a crashpad again, working the worst schedules again, and not breaking even money wise for at least three years. Then a few years later when schedules get better you upgrade back into crashpads and reserve.

The lost decade trapped a lot of guys at the regionals. There are regionals with direct flow through agreements where they do not even apply for the major job, they log into the website and check a box to flow. Yet there are a few hundred - for example - at Envoy who choose not to flow. For them it’s a QOL issue mostly.

I’m sure there are countless other reasons. Assuming they are there because they can’t leave is a big mistake. Most just don’t want to.