That's another thing I don't get. Virgin America's minimums are something like 7000TT, TR preferred etc. Why someone with that kind of credentials accept those wages is beyond me.
That's just the problem with judging other people. You don't know why they would work somewhere - and you could never know. All you can do is judge them based on the way you perceive reality. For example, I have a friend whose career path was commuter pilot, moved on to major, major merged with another and then another airline and became US Airways where he spent almost 15 years. Furloughed twice and while on furlough this second time pilot group merged yet again. Merger arbitration placed all furloughed pilots (even those with 18 years at US Air) at the bottom of the new combined seniority list where he will never make Captain again - infact he was telling me yesterday he will retire before even reaching a comparable position on the seniority list to what he had prior to this last furlough. Meaning he will retire a junior FO on a 737 commuting to the east coast from the west coast and never seeing his kids, only to gamble that this won't all happen again... so what did he do - went to Virgin America. Now he's home with the kids, making more than he was before anyway. Does VA hurt you? Maybe? Does he give a damn... I doubt it.
In my experience the kind of people who make retarded comments about denying people the jumpseat are those who were lucky enough to not commute because the company they work for has a domicile where they live, or they were able to move to live in domicile, and they haven't experienced the kinds of backwards career progression that can happen to the best of us in this crazy business.
Just my two cents.