Fly90, I think you need to zoom out on your timeline and study some airline history. Would you believe me if I told you that Delta was also the place to be some 25 years ago? They and UAL were the cat's meow. So was US Air. Then they went bankrupt after 9/11, and boatloads of their jobs got outsourced. You know which airline shined back then and enjoyed a huge rise in seniority? You guessed it.... the Southwestern Trailways. Wanna go back even further? Imagine being a Pan Am pilot.... or how about TWA? Or the real Eastern? Let's get to more recent history.... how about FedEx?

You might even be able to pull posts on Southwest threads about guys asking if they should leave SWA for Fedex "because upgrade to a 757 was almost off the street and Southwest upgrade is a lifetime away..." Also, you may see comments along the lines of "freight is a more stable career than pax airlines..." Now look at them. They were offered deals to go to PSA Airlines with a big bonus! A regional!

My point? Settle down. You live in a seniority-driven world. Were you seriously expecting a 35+ year career of zero corporate drama? Did you think you would get that at Delta? Or any other airline for that matter? If you do, please contact me for a super cheap deal on a bridge on either coast....

As others said, unless you're one of the last few hired at Southwest, you probably missed the boat at the legacies. Look at the numbers hired at Delta just since 2021... FAPA shows 6,431 pilots hired just in the last 3 years - and they've been hiring since 2014. See for yourself: https://www.fapa.aero/pilot-hiring-history

APC is full of trolling jackwagons who get off on people's misery and sowing FUD... learn to ignore people like that and even put some more annoying ones on your ignore list. My advice to you is enjoy life and whatever that means to you. You get 18-20 days off per month. Go vacation somewhere, pick up a hobby that gets you away from the negative nancies on these boards. Or you can bang away 150+ TFP per month and sock away cash. It's nice to have options, and you have plenty of them without nuking the seniority you already have.