The phrase "un-commutable outstations" has taken on new meaning at Republic with the ridiculous manner in which the company has chosen to implement the 117 rest rules. It seems that, at Republic at least, the new rest rules have served no purpose other than to exacerbate nearly everything that Republic pilots disliked about their trips and schedules. Multi-day trips, almost without exception, begin very early and end very late, so trying commute on the first or last day of your trip has become largely impossible. Average credit has been lowered which has reduced the number of days off for most line holders by 2-5 days per month.

Hub basing would ease some of these problems, but the company's latest vacancy posting demonstrate that they are dedicated to growing their Northeastern outstations and are doing everything that they can to resist growing any of their hub bases, seemingly at any cost.

If you live in PHX, as your username suggests, you will hate life at any of the Republic bases. I strongly suggest a carrier that isn't clinging to an outdated outstation model and has more western bases.

You may be thinking -as I was when I was in your shoes- about ORD or ATL, but that thought disappears very quickly when I walk past a gate at Sky Harbor boarding for one of these hub destinations and I see as many as six pilots standing there hoping for the jumpseat on an oversold flight. Also, ORD removes SWA from your commuting options and ATL is super-senior and no one seems to know why Republic (Shuttle Cert) has a base there anymore.

However, if one enjoys using 1-1.5 of his or her days off for each four-day trip, has a spare car that he or she can leave in a employee lot in IND, CMH, PIT, SDF, GSO, MCI to drive you back and forth to a crappy crash pad to get 5 hours of fitful and disturbed sleep between the beginning/end of a trip and a commute to/from home, and using a bidding software that doesn't allow you to chose the number of days off between trips/blocks of work days oftentimes leaving you with only two days off to commute to/from home, then Republic is the place for you.