which ever one hires you first. I don't know about XJet but, we have a pretty darn good airline. You'll see a lot of griping here about things but, we've been without a new contract for 3 years now. Hopefully we'll see something in the next 6 months or so. Some of the gripes are legit, most are not. Skywest will be buying ASA in the next month to 2 months. I don't know what that will mean for us but, I don't think it'll be anything bad.
Time to hold a line, upgrade, yadda, yadda will go up and down at all the airlines. Guys are coming out of new hire class right now and holding relief lines and better. Upgrade has been pretty long but, is coming down quickly. My feeling about the upgrade time is this; if you want to go somewhere because the upgrade time is super short right now, you probably missed the short time and you'll be on the back side of the cycle and you might get stuck in the right seat for a good while.
If you get an offer from more than one, pick the one with the bases and benefits that suite you best.
cheers!