Originally Posted by
rickair7777
If none of the downside scares you off, there might well be a $20K regional job awaiting after a few years of training and timebuilding and many tens of thousands of dollars..
Of course this assumes no industry catastrophe...presumably we will be subject to the usual wars, terrorism, epidemics, economic failures, and environmental fascism
I will add to your excellent points that if you do not have a 4 year college degree, the chances at a well paying "major" airline job in the USA is going to be virtually non-existent.
For all the "dues paying" (both in time and real cash dollars), you will most likely never make it to the big payoff. And even after the furloughs, if you do make it, the chances of the airline failing are always present.
The quickest upgrades at a major airline are probably at the most unstable. That means perhaps a new, untested airline, of which there are a bazillion failures, or one that people have low confidence in and are bailing from to go to a "stable" airline.
Those stable airlines of today will probably not be the stable airlines when you need them "tomorrow".
Past "really good airline" for a career:
Pan Am