Thanks for the detailed reply
geardown1 , really appreciate it.
Summer leave would be a luxury for me, never had that before, and good to hear part time options are actually realistic.
It does sound like a good place to work with the right sort of people, which is a big factor.
For me it’s a massive gamble at this stage. I wouldn’t be in a rush to get command back and 5 years would be fine, but anything much longer than that starts to interfere with retirement plans. From what you’ve said, and others, it sounds like there’s a big queue of command ready FOs already, so I suspect 5 years is probably on the optimistic side, but appreciate it can move either way depending on fleet and expansion.
Plenty to think about.