You’re asking how long to hold a line as a Captain, basically. Because $250k is one thing, good QOL and $250k is another. Add on that your desire to go to one of the bases (ORD or DTW) that was recently downsized. Nobody can tell you how long this will be when you factor in the merger and you being junior to every JBLU pilot.

Let’s just say you will have many thousands of those 121 hours that your disregard so much, “looking out the window”.