Interestingly, after I wrote my post I was thinking. 10 years ago when I started flying the regionals after being a CFI if someone gave me the option to be on a mainline list right away, but you’ll make less for a while, albeit 6 figures, I probably would have wept with joy to have a mainline seniority number making 100k plus. Then I’d snap out of it and continue eating my McDonald’s on the corner of my crashpad that I commuted in from while making 19k. 😖 Glad things are different.