''Not under any illusions old chap and I know more than enough folk in the airlines to know that the grass certainly isn't greener outside, merely fertilised with a different type of sh*t.''
Ha ha. Too true. When I joined Virgin in August 2001 during resettlement and final leave (not great timing) I was told I was redundant a few weeks after 9/11. So I managed to get made redundant from my first airline before I had even left the RAF! As it happened, they changed their mind a few hours later and eventually I would have been safe. Except that I left on voluntary redundancy.