COTB, have you considered RTR part time? I too have decided I have had enough of commuting to Heathrow with ‘trip two days off’ for the rest of my career, and predicting how bad JSS will be for a junior captain, my lifestyle is going to change beyond recognition. I considered leaving, but decided it would be madness to leave without first obtaining the command. In your shoes, I would have chosen part time (to make the commute with short haul acceptable), and then bid for a short haul command. Once you have your 500 hours, you can review whether to continue part time with BA or go for a DEC with someone else? If you are in no rush for a command, these options are still available to you, you will just have to wait until 2020 for the command having not bid for it in the recent window. Part time is in my opinion, the only way to survive BA nowadays, but I think part time with BA will be a better lifestyle than full time with someone else.