....I too was the kid with the airband at the airshows, I stood by the fence at airports, built my own flight simulator, built airfix kits and all the rest of it but cost cutting and EASA is sapping everybody's enthusiasm now and mostly you'll just feel tired of it
Yep, that was me as well...Even as a long in the tooth long hauler I think that is fair comment IMHO, and I don't know how long my short haul colleagues rosters are really really sustainable. I would also second the previous comments about the need to seriously consider some form of part time working if as a relative wrinkly (where are we with a definition of that? Thirty plus...) you are hoping to hold onto some semblance of family life or a life outside work.