Originally Posted by
ZeroTT
If you compare two random groups of a thousand pilots with three years seniority, yes their experiences will be the same.
individual careers live and die over random, arbitrary, capricious events. For every pilot with a story about how a little bit more seniority helped them, there are zero pilots with a story about how having a little less seniority prevented a disaster. Should you skip your sister’s wedding for a class two weeks earlier? No. Should you skip you buddies wedding for a class two months earlier? Yes.
For the folks to took the first class offered a major/legacy, pre covid, that will yield them 1-2 extra years of longevity pay and counting. 1-2 years more at top of pay scale, 401k DC, vacation, etc. Not hard to make the math work that it could end up being close to a $1m swing all inclusive if you put them in a widebody for two more years at the end of their career. They stressed the last year, as everybody did, but they’ve got a number and with the way things are turning around, probably safe. Never pass a class up, anywhere, unless you have an extremely good reason.