Copa
Yes there are always options, you could go to work for a mining company in Australia, make 125,000 Aussie dollars a year, go brain dead and work with the dumbest SOB's you ever met. Take a sixty year old pilot, he is not getting the offers that he used to, highly experienced, glass cockpit time, doesn't matter, 60 year olds are not getting the offers that a younger pilot will. China, for example, even KSA, are not going to hire a sixty year old pilot for an airline, India yes, but thats India, been there, done that. Along comes Copa, where many pilots who retired early or hit 60 before they changed the rules, can still fly until they are 65. Warm beaches, nice equipment, and they want you to work for them. Perhaps there comes a time where,"chasing the money" as opposed to doing what you enjoy doing , is no longer important. Get out of flying for a length of time, lets say two years, and believe me when you walk back towards it, you start to feel alive again. Copa is what it is, offers a job to some of us who are not getting calls anymore, and If your idea is to fly, then all the stuff that goes with it, much of which you already know from the numerous aviation threads and the internet, is all part and parcel of the position. So you see, for some of us, the decision is not that hard.
Foot Note, that mining stuff, that is based upon personal experience.
Also the three year bond, is not valid, and most of the pilots are not signing it and are still be offered the job and working there. This info comes from the States side HR person who has clarified that. The Panamanian HR person initiated this, and apparently was reemed for it.