Originally Posted by tonsterboy5

Has anyone even considered that airlines regularly change bases and one does not get to pick where they work. Imagine going to your local Walmart for a job and then on the first day learn that you will have to work in another state. Then once you pick up and move there they opened a new Walmart somewhere else and since you are junior you are forced to move again. Working for an airline you don’t get to pick where you work, it’s not like I can say I only want to work in Chicago so I can work at “a b or c” I could go to A then in class they announce that no one is going to Chicago and all new hires get Houston.

I have said I will never commute. I have also said I refuse to live in California or NY. This still leaves where I actually end up working in limbo. I have the ability to move to whereever I’m based but realize that where I’m based can change at the whim of the airline or if I upgrade I will most likely have to change bases. I don’t see what the issue is if someone doesn’t want constantly move at the whim of an airline which is why positive space should be given to those that commute. Unless an airline guarantees you a base at hire, pays based on experience not seniority, and offers a moving package for base changes, positive space should be given to those that don’t wish to chase base moves around the country.