by the way ATP sorry for the negative reply to your thread, I would love to tell you its great and have a good time, but it would be a huge disservice to you. There is nothing wrong with your thought process, its the same one that got the rest of us a front row seat at this industries funeral.

My first airline flight as a kid came at a time when flight attendants were nice pretty ladies and we called them stewardesess, and if the adults felt like lighting a cigarette after the meal, the good people at Pan Am (maybe i was on a NWA flight, can't remember) wouldent complain. One of my earliest memories was from an airline flight. I wanted be a pilot and nothing else since then, gods honest truth. But the cost is way way higher than the returns.