Originally Posted by Ultralight

I was waiting for you to chime in and defend your precious Compass. Its a regional that pays dog crap and promises flows just like the rest of them.
I have plenty of 121 & 135 experience and would never send my app to a place that doesn't pay for accommodation during training, then offers $25 an hour. Someone with prior 121 experience deserves more than that don't you think?

Back to "song man's" question. You may get hired at an airline that has a base where you live and you may be assigned that base, eventually. In reality you'll be commuting to sit reserve in a crash pad at a junior base like JFK or ORD and you will be poor and miserable for the foreseeable future.

Its true that you have to look long term, but initially you will have to pay your dues, and for a guy with a young family the first year at any regional will be tough.