Many of the Captains I interact socially with are doing exactly that. Thinking long and hard about how they are spending their money, making sure it’s going to work for them rather than buying more toys, and working towards an FU status.
I haven't posted for a while but I'd like to third that comment, however it's not just Captains, I see F/O's thinking the same way and S/O's who don't take promotion as they too are just counting the dollars to get out.
Most pilots are just so over the combative nature of Qantas industrial philosophy.
We are industrially fatigued. How they hell HR thought of threatening the SH pilots EBA with the 787 slots is truly pathetic.
People in HR have destroyed engagement as they justify their sad, angry, latte slurping existence.
Relations/Engagement, with the pilot body, can not improve whilst we spend all our time feeling under constant attack from one EBA into the next.
Lets go for a 100% NO vote this year!