Ex BMI, captain and junior.
When your in the bubble of which there is no choice you will never move up. If 20% left the list all that happens is the list becomes 20% smaller and the amount of work is reduced by a equal amount.
I have no problem with being at the bottom and working your way up. There have been some very good post here and that is nice to see.
I have flown for other airlines and BA is pretty poor when your at the bottom. It of course has some positives but the whole lifestyle choices and rostering freedom is denied to pilots of my demographic. When you remove those perks and with the changes to SH you do look over the fence at easy and see hard work but better rostering, the possibility of a home base in time and better financial reward. It's a big big call to leave BA and the advice of not making a rash decision is very wise. Perhaps I just need to hang on a while longer and see if the situation is changed with JSS.