Originally Posted by
Vokes55
It’s horses for courses and you don’t give much away about your personal circumstances, but unless you live significantly closer to a Jet2 base than LHR, I don’t think it would be wise to give up (I assume, as you’re still there) a safe place on the BA seniority list to join an airline completely exposed at the lower end of the U.K. outbound leisure market going into a cost of living squeeze, flying an old, thirsty fleet of aircraft around during a period of fuel price volatility.
As mentioned above, there are very few unicorn jobs around and those that have them don’t give them up. I’d ride it out if I were you, at least for another year or so. But as I said, horses for courses.
I've never worked for BA but this is such a bad take I had to interject. If we hit the mother of all recessions in a year or two, given the level of debt and poor management at all levels of BA and how badly they treated everyone during Covid, I would wager there isn't a pilot in the country who would pick BA over Jet2 right now.
As for this guys place on the seniority list, plenty of pilots at TCX, Flybe and now Tui UK would trade their number for a spot in a well run airline