Plus, flight benefits. Of all things. Obvious troll so don’t feed him, but come on. Yeah I had “benefits” on 3.5 airlines. I had to pay every year to opt into most of them, or like UA pay segment fees (or maybe that was my parents…I don’t know, I truly never used them). Full delta was $200 and AA was…$100? Or something. Whatever. If you’re one to be pedantic, hundreds of dollars a year. To be lower priority than everyone, even mainline buddy passes, on mostly full flights. I only used my bennies to commute, for the short period I did that. And the random trip where I’d deviate from a DH proceeded with a 5hr sit, or getting home early from recurrent. I’m with the other guy, team “just buy a ticket.” I get limited days off a year, in a very specific window of time. I’m not rolling the dice, I just buy a ticket for us.

Anyway despite hiccups some in my class have experienced (like the guy who ended up without a reservation and had to buy a week of hotels on his own), already far and away better than a regional. I can already tell many aspects stand to benefit from improvement, but it’s still better. I look forward to what the future holds.