Originally Posted by Azorian

prior 121 ive worked for could do that to you, but it was normally a TDY stint that would see you sitting in the new base for a week or two, perhaps the whole month.

If you had reserve for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and you were LAX based... if the phone rang at 7am, you could bank on getting an LAX originating trip for the day, or an overnight originating out of LAX. If you were deadheaded out to cover another base, its only because they ran out of reserves there and had a sufficient number in your home base and could afford to lose you.

with boutique, and i am not complaining here so dont get me wrong, just pointing out the differences... you can just about count on flying out of every base but your own. not so much for FOs, but definitely for PICs