Originally Posted by
Mdrungu
SO appreciate the Forum and this awesome thread.
I live 40 min from CLT, have several CJO’s w/ regionals. Thoughts on whether best to commute from CLT to some Republic base? Or join PSA and hope to get CLT? Flow is not a big deal to me – hoping to get current and move along before flow would factor. Max QoL guy.
Grateful in advance for your wisdom and advice!
How to achieve max QOL is going to be different for each person. Republic has one of the better contracts and thus better work rules. But, it might not be worth it if you'll always be stuck with a commute to/from CLT. If it were me I'd be trying to avoid the commute, but the decision isn't as simple as choosing an airline that has a CLT base. I do believe CLT is senior at PSA. Consider the base seniority as both FO and CA. You might be able to get in very easily as an FO but then the next thing you know you are force upgraded into EWR (that place sucks) and/or it takes many additional years of seniority to be able to hold CLT again.
I live in base and always have. Once you taste living in base, there's no going back to the commute (for me anyway). Some guys hardly complain though. I was flying with a captain recently who had been doing a two leg commute across most of the country...for over 10 years.