Originally Posted by Douglas9

Hopefully you don’t have to wait 11 years to upgrade, Then downgrade from a major event, take a 70% pay cut through 2 BKs, start over somewhere else only to go through another BK and finally upgrade after another 14 years in the right seat after starting over at another airline to finally make some decent money the last 5 years of your career.

Please don’t paint all that pick up extra trips with the broad paint brush of being greedy or financially ignorant. There’s a lot of us who have been through the ringer in this business while raising a family that are just trying to make a little more for our impending retirement that didn’t enjoy much time in the left seat.
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