Originally Posted by TOGALOCK

Not being snarky, but how exactly should we respond? I’m not going to put together an excel spreadsheet to do his homework for him. I can give him the basic facts and he can make the decision himself from there. A lot of the decision is very personal.

I can say from personal experience, 8 months on property and I’ve had my kids’ birthdays off, Halloween off, Thanksgiving off, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off, as well as many many weekends off. Those were actually awarded days off, not unused reserve days I’m counting as “off”. I was 50% in my base as captain at frontier and STILL got unstacked into my last Xmas there on reserve. I also have an ORD captain award already awarded and just waiting to get off probation. I’ll be bidding at around 87% when I finally get over due to the junior floodgates opening recently and so many people below me bidding in. I’m sure I’ll slide backwards a bit by other more senior people coming in as well. But 1 year on property, living in base, and maybe bidding a little over 90%, while making 300+ in the left seat, I’ll take it.

People seem very resistant and defensive to hearing that life is actually better on the other side. I still have many friends who are still at F9. Everyone has their own reasons to stay and I don’t blame any of them one bit. I genuinely don’t want to become “that” legacy guy who just brags about his move. I simply state the facts. Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of bad things to say. I miss my time at Frontier and look back on it with a smile on my face. But if people here ask about life after Frontier, I will gladly share. I’ve spend many hours talking with others through PM about the pros and cons of leaving. For me, it was the best decision that this Frontier fanboy ever made.

ReserveCa, however, is difficult to respond to seriously. He has nearly a 100% complaint rate for every post he’s ever made. I’m not going to take a great deal of time entertaining someone who is likely just going to respond with a further complaint.. and look… I was right.