If someone finds this job difficult at Expressjet, it will be more demanding at a major airline due to longer routes, red eyes, more complicated aircraft, more passengers. Everything is amplified a bit.

If you think the job is easy here, it will probably also be easy at a major airline.

I could be wrong about this. I guess my point is, this job is not mentally or physically demanding once you get the hang of it. The people complaining about the company probably aren't new hires still struggling to learn the basics here, they're pilots who have been here for years and would like a new contract. For them, it should be an easy job.

I think the time off could be better, easily, by improving the efficiency of trips: make each duty period include 6 hours of flying, for example. Then it would take 12.5 days to fly 75hours credit. Then you get 17.5 days off. But for the people who say this job is difficult, wouldn't days like that be much harder than their 4.5 hour days?