Originally Posted by
Utah
The outstation bases (PSP,FAT, TUS, COS) typically have very early morning departures and very late arrivals at night. Most of the pairings either start real early or get off really late(or both). It would put you commuting in the day before, or going home the day after a lot of the time. Living in domicile would be fine if you don't mind 5am shows or 11pm releases.
Hub pairings on the other hand typically don't have as many early shows/late releases as the aircraft overnight at the outstations. They still have some flying like this, but the majority of the pairings will have mid morning-mid afternoon/evening show and release times. Much easier for commuting.
Get on SkyWestonline when you're eligible and you can look at all of the different domiciles pairings under the PBS page.
This honestly has nothing to do with "Utah". The reason you end up having schedules like this is because that is how all of SkyWest's partners schedule the flights. They have early departures on regional aircraft into hubs so that the regional aircraft can feed mainline's planes in the hub. Works the same with the night flights, they want the regional aircraft moving people out of the hub into outstations at night so they can leave their planes at the hub.