Not necessarily. I made within 5% of what I would have as a junior Captain on reserve last year, but I had 80 days straight off over the summer, flew right around 600 hours, and my days worked were less than half the year overall. A lot of those days I was home by 9am on the last day. Being a senior FO I get the trips I want and makes IMAX crazy easy to do…and I’m a commuter.

To each their own!