<<"It's the responsibility of the employee to get themselves to work if they choose to live or travel outside of their domicile/base/whatever, not the airline. ">>
I'm guessing the the company you fly for never closed a domicile shortly after they opened it and you moved there, bought a house, found wifey a job and junior some new friends at a new school? Or they never parked a fleet and displaced a few thousand guys to other domiciles a thousand miles away?