PLease allow me to throw my 2p in...
I recently joined BA from easyJet and believe it or not, I'm starting to regret the move....I got totally wrapped up in the boyhood dream when they opened their recruitment and I jumped straight in without pausing for thought.
Life has a funny way of altering your mindset, and more importantly, your priorities as time goes on. I now have 2 beautiful children and they are everything. My wife and family will always come first.
It is only now that I have joined BA I have to come to realise that it is not the number of flying hours you do per annum, but how many duty hours.
The maximum duty hours I operated in one year at easyJet was 1448. Last year was 1220ish (650ish flying hours). The rest was spent with my family.
I'm starting to think that, at BA I will be away an awful lot more, doing an awful lot more duty hours.
Of course, BA offers the better career from a purely selfish point of view - but allow to me play devil's advocate with the family man inside you.
Just food for thought...