Originally Posted by hockeypilot44

I agree with you. I won't even consider bidding anything below 40 percent in category until my kids don't care anymore. Life is too short to live at work. A divorce will wipe out all your extra earnings anyway. You don't have to miss everything as an airline pilot. That's a choice when we're hiring 1000 per year. All that being said, 12 years later, I'm a narrow body first officer who has never been to Europe.