Originally Posted by Roadkill

IA, there are many folks who simply do not have the choice to live in base as you seem to. For example, I am $250,000 upside down on my house that I acquired during a 6 year furlough. My military job that paid for my food during those 6 years just didn't happen to be in a Delta base, and I started a family during those long years away, so I had to get housing. Now I'm back at Delta, I'd love to move to my base, any base, but unless someone gives me $250k, I can't...

Here's something you get already that is $$$ and I don't: free parking at your base. I'd love to have free parking at my airport, but instead of every pilot getting a parking stipend to do with as they desire, the "non commuter prejudice" kicks in and only those living in a pilot (or flt att) base get this perk. I pay about $150/mo for parking.

I think we can agree that life for the commuter is nowhere near as nice from an airline perspective as for those who are ABLE to live in base... rather than demanding that those less fortunate than you not get any improvement in their lives unless you get a commensurate good deal, can you not look upon those less fortunate and say, "Ok, THAT is a pretty crappy deal, maybe a small mitigation of pain so they only have 5 times the pain as I do would be ok..."