Originally Posted by
Aiza
Unless you want to print money in the far east or trade your life for money in the Locos, NEVER become a narrow body captain.
1. You'll fly to all the ****ty destinations, bad atc, wx.
2. You'll fly 100 plus hours of turns and nights month after month.
3. Your contracts will keep changing.
4.then finally the ever lasting risk that you'll become an FO again.
Mate have you been paying attention? (With the caveat I observed this from the position of a CC, I spent the larger part of a decade over there)
1. There's a lot of that in EK too
2. Have you seen the hours EK guys are flying? 90+ combined with ULR will do that and worse.
3. See point 1.
4. Also see point 1. Ask the guys who got screwed over relatively small issues how they're going as FOs again. And then of course if you're flying with a local and something goes wrong, who has the bigger chance of getting canned? Hint: probably not him/her