BS,
I'm not trying to lobby or campaign for those who are there to up and walk out. I'm pretty aware of how hard it is to leave when you have time in, and become established.

I did it, and my situation was different than a lot of others. I lived in base as well, but my base was closing, so unlike your setup, mine had to change either way. It was a choice, it was hard, it put my family in a really hard spot for over a year. What worked for me didn't for a great friend who was in my class, his reasons to stay, even now are difficult to argue.

I'm trying really hard to keep the fresh fish from taking a job there without knowing what a world of crap they are in for. BS, you're QOL has probably taken quite some time to become reasonable there. These new guys don't have the benefit of the kind of movement other companies will have due to PDT's top heavy seniority list.

For someone getting on now, there's little hope for career progression, and as hiring minimums have become pretty much standard across the regional carriers, there's no incentive to go to PDT and deal with the crap just to get "some" job. There are others out there. If you have the time to get hired at PDT, you have the time to get hired at any other regional.

I realize deterring new guys from coming to PDT probably hurts your career progression whether through necessary staffing requirements affecting your schedule or upgrade potential, or hurting the company therefore jeopardizing your job, and I'm sorry, that's not my intention.

I mean no offense, as you said, your situation works for you and seems pretty reasonable, as reasonable as working at any regional can be.
But the perspective and QOL a new hire will face is far different from yours, and will likely not reach yours in any foreseeable time frame. Bottom line, the bottom 20% will continue churning and turning over, not much above that will move, and that's where the new guys will almost perpetually be swimming.