Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Probably depends on the regional. If it's a niche regional with little opportunity for growth and a stagnant seniority list then yeah it might make sense to go elsewhere. Bear in mind that 135 will take some hustle and has it's own warts as folks have mentioned here. Also possible that when hiring warms up at the majors that ULCC's will start taking regional FO's again like they did before covid. At your age it does make some sense to try to shoot for the legacy stars, since you'll have plenty of time to enjoy the left seat of a widebody.
or 40 years at NK or F9 would pay him about $10 million outright and build a 401k (depending on investment choices) of about $3.5 - 4 million.
He could likely scrape by on that, if he lived frugally...