I have been around the flying business long enough to see it go boom-bust-boom with a long period of blaaaaah interspersed in there when the retirement age was raised from 60 to 65. I have generally made my career decisions by asking myself the question, "Do I want to be there if the music stops?" Because the next bust is coming. The music always stops, but nobody knows when it might happen. Nobody foresaw the late 90s hiring boom going bust at the end of 2001. Nobody made their career plans based on five years of stagnation due to few retirements and minimal hiring.


We may already be in a recession. Where will you be on the day it's officially called? Will you be happy in that seat if you're in it for several years?



50% of lines (regular or reserve) are written with a single block of days off - CBA specifies blocks of days off rather than blocks of work days - so that could be a single block of 16/17 work days or split into two blocks with 14 off in the middle. The rest of the lines may have two or three blocks of days off. If you want to break it up, whether you're on a regular line or a reserve line, you more than likely can do that.



14 days per month.



$128.40 bi-weekly for the low-end plan employee+spouse, which is still pretty good coverage. Employee only is a little less than half of that. There are two higher-priced tiers with lower deductibles and out-of-pocket limits.