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Even if the majors do hire again (which they certainly will), you will be at your regional for so long, that leaving your $80,000 captain pay at your regional for an FO spot at a major making $40,000 the first year and sitting on reserve and Ready Reserve will be a very hard decision. The quality of life issues, pay issues, and the fact that there are no more pensions to look forward to are things that will keep people at regionals until retirement.
Well if you work for a regional that pays low enough
you won't have an issue when it comes to a big pay cut, lol. But I hope that since we have ALPA now, we can get a contract sometime in the next few years that will increase our pay by a competitive amount.
The seniority, QOL, Reserve are all extremely valid points though. But, still, would it not be worth it to make the move to a company that you can comfortably retire with? As far as retirement goes ... I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not relying on an airlines retirement program. I'm relying on my own money I'm putting away every month. Although a 401k matching program would be REALLY nice