Originally Posted by
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Why sell yourself short? Get in and get your 1000 hours 121 time and go to any big airline, make lots of money, much better schedules. You will not have any great QOL at any regional anytime soon. Most lines are 90 hours now, lots of work. You make a lot more then 60K at a regional but will work 16-18 days a month average. If you super senior you could in theory work about 12 days a month. You can bid local trips in domicile and be home every night, depending on your seniority of course.
I have young kids and my priority is time at home. I'm more interested in QOL than money. As for passing on the majors, I'm concerned that it would take much longer to build the necessary seniority in a major to bid decent schedules. For Skywest, what realistically qualifies as "super senior" enough that I could bid local trips?