All the above is correct depending on your standpoint and LS is better than RS, but we are talking about a career and income here, and when you finally have to leave the LS (TP or babyJet) to join a bigger (possibly more secure) airline, you are going back into that RS potentially for a very long time. Is it 'better to have loved and lost.....' as they say? I do know quite a few SFO's who have had commands before who are deeply resentful of the fact they now languish in the RS due to the recession. Those that have only known the RS have less to grumble about, but at least we are very well paid in our RS's and slowly but surely getting towards a command and some serious money. And yes I know money is not everything, but its pretty useful when you have a wife, kids and school fees to pay for.