Ive been here 3.5 and can hold CA. I have numerous junior to me taking it each bid. To each their own, but it’s absolutely obtainable at 3.5 probably even 3 at the moment.

Someone asked about life here. While the grid is a lot more red on the FO side (base dependent) I still get most of what I want in my award and basically all of the days off I need. Even with a red grid I can still swap into different sometimes better trips over my original trip award, so still have some flexibility.

I love it here and have no plans on leaving. That said I do realize that someone hired today in the 3000s is a hell of a lot diff than myself 3.5 years ago when I was 1900ish on the list. I was fortunate to be one of the first classes with massive hiring until Covid hit. Then we continued hiring 9-10 months after Covid continuously.

The tough part of this career is timing, good and bad. Again I 100% understand why we have such high attrition. It’s a totally diff airline for a new hire today vs 4 years ago.

I believe when all the BS growing/merger pains are over the new Blue is going to workout well. I’m not old, but I’m not insanely young either. I could probably leave, but I look at where I’ll realistically be after an SLI on a 7-8,000 combined pilot list and it doesn’t make a lot of sense to leave.