Originally Posted by
SpamCanDriver
I've done both & would say that massively depends
Longhaul "especially in the sandpit" can be extremely fatiguing. Good longhaul is nice, but longhaul with min rest everywhere and 900hrs or more per year is terrible
If you don't want to stay in J2, i would definitely say BA is your best option by far. As everyone else has said, the sooner the better
Agreed that it depends. I wouldn’t want to be flying 900 hrs a year either. At my current job, LH FO is a longer wait than SH CA.
LH isn’t for everyone (nor is SH), but the quality of life improvement cannot be overstated.
Ideally the OP would be somewhere where he/she can try both kinds of flying. J2 is SH only, and VIrgin is LH only. BA seems the easy choice.