Air Wisconsin pilots win!!

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[ballsdeep123]

except that you should gladly keep moving everytime you get discplaced, upgrade or whatever the reason to move domiciles.....

If airlines had to choose pilots who would gladly live in domcile the pickins would be slim.....

Not to mention, most regional airlines don't pay their F/O's enough money to live in domicile. Not only are the bases changing all the time, but they're normally extremely expensive to live in. Look at AWAC for example, bases in Philly, D.C. and Norfolk/Virginia Beach. To buy at normal three bedroom house in any of those places in a decent neighborhood is $300,000+. That's why every F/O that I know lives with 2-3 roommates if they're not married. Most other airlines are the same way. Bases in New York, D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas, L.A., Denver, just to name a few, so that the airlines can generate enough originating passengers to fill airplanes. Most professionals get compensated more for living in large cities, not airline pilots.

 

[HelloNewman]

I'm beginning to think you really are as stupid as you seem. Otherwise, you'd realize the whole point for RONs is flying an early morning originator to the hub.


Yeah, people who were told "we're NEVER leaving Denver" should root up their teenage children, sell their homes, and move out to the croweded, expensive, sh!thole east coast simply so management can save some bucks.

That is why you also have two-day trips or standup/continuous duty overnights to cover the RONs. You don't need all 4 day trips to cover those. Being in a hotel sometimes is unavoidable as an airline pilot. This can be minimized however through more efficent scheduling.

 

[HelloNewman]

except that you should gladly keep moving everytime you get discplaced, upgrade or whatever the reason to move domiciles.....

Excellent point, now your getting it. Having to move certainly does suck. Especially moving multiple times. The prospect of having to move more than once in a few years for your job is not a pilot only problem. Lots of different people get transfered at different companies all the time. The only difference is they really have no choice to commute since they have no non rev privledges. People say they have no choice to commute ( uprooting the kids, wife, etc.) This is a valid reason to commute. The choice to commute began, however, when that application was signed stating you're willing to relocate. Once that is signed you acknowledge that bases can open and close, even multiple times.

It is tougher at a regional airline since we are all fee per departure and at the mercy of mainline. The main goal however is for most of us to get to mainline eventually. Opening and closing bases doesn't happen nearly as often there at mainline. Guaranteed profits every quarter certainly has its downsides.