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Be Realistic
Way to go making light of a fellow crew members dreadful experience. Maybe we need to focus more on the reserve QOL, being that all new hires will have to experience that, and forget about the HDMWD complaint, being that its just a snotty few who have to worry about it?
Don't allow those who could have a good career else where consider this dump for more than a second without knowing the truth about how little they will make or how they will be abused or how they will never upgrade in FL in the next 10-15 years. Some of us have reason to be stuck here. If only I could go back
We're talking about two airlines here. People who are based in Florida and hired before ~2014 are hosed, I can't imagine how anyone can do reserve there with all the cross state Lyfts rides, repos, etc. Upgrade is not going to happen in a Florida base. If you live in Florida are you're junior, it makes sense to go to practically any other airline... UPS/AA with the Miami base, Southwest with MCO, even F9 with Tampa.
People who are not based in Florida have a much different job. Reserves in the small bases don't fly much. Line holders get VFNs fairly easily, especially if you live in base. A junior line holder captain in a small base can easily make $300k without doing a single layover, and probably flying less than 700 hours a year. Compared to Delta or Southwest, it might be 100k less, but the job is not really comparable to someone who commutes to LGA or does 3 day trips. Everyone can make their choice.