Originally Posted by
Cujo665
When the kids hit university age, it’s the difference between them having no debt, or student loans to pay off. Your example of $170k vs $220k is $50k a year over a decade or more before college. An extra 3-4% direct contribution is over a million over an entire career.
Yes, they are perfectly good jobs, but if you’re only a few years in and a legacy calls, you go. Exception being if you’re older or live in Base. Once you upgrade at your LCC it’s too late to jump and then play catch up unless you’re very young.
It’s easy to see, just run a spreadsheet with the current rates and compare each airline.
You know you would probably win a Nobel prize for that spreadsheet, unless your timescale is like 5 years or so.
Too many moving targets and shifting goalposts in that equation to make a meaningful determination on future earnings. Things like, right now AA G4 CA is let's say 30 years. It likely will drop to half in the next few years. Route structures, fleet composition, salary expectations etc. Too complicated to make any sort of meaningful estimations on what your career would be like for the next 20 or so years. 2 years ago, Spirit/Frontier etc spreadsheets would have looked completely different than what they do today.