Sure as hell ain't no grass greener than a $3.5M retirement - or is that a "slight" exaggeration? My airline (biggest/2nd biggest in Eu) you'd get about £20,000pa if you started at 18 and survived until 65.
TD, guess there must be lots of one-aeroplane airlines around, but what did you fly in Aeroflot? Pretty unusual for an American, that!